People's Democracy

THE Bengal Left Front, meeting at the Muzaffar Ahmad Bhavan in the afternoon of July 3, called upon the Left Front government of Bengal to finalise a policy of Information Technology-enabled services as early as possible. The Bengal LF government’s IT minister, Manabendra Mukherjee, attended the meeting.

Unless such a IT-enabled services policy was drafted and implemented early, the Bengal Left Front felt, the state would be left lagging behind in the IT sector at the national and international level. The policy would be finalised after legal vetting and after being cleared by the Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.

The draft agricultural policy of the LF government would be given its final form after the draft is discussed at the level of the core committee of the LF government, the Left front leadership resolved. The agricultural policy and the IT-enabled services policy, said Left Front chairman Biman Basu, would both be announced in a very short while.

The LF meeting also decided upon setting up a new consolidated fund of the Left Front to meet the growing expenditure of organising meetings, rallies etc.

The Left Front meeting that was presided over by Biman Basu, and attended among others by Jyoti Basu and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, condoled the demise of D. D. Sastri, the general secretary of the All-India Forward Bloc, and of S Suryanarayana Rao, the secretary of the Karnataka unit of the CPI (M). The meeting also adopted a resolution condoling the deaths of the hapless victims of the continuing killing spree in Gujarat.