Bihar Government has decided to implement few schemes already under place in West Bengal which includes incentives for poor, health insurance and small businesses.
Schemes of West Bengal government regarding workers in construction, tram and shipping sectors as also rickshaw-pullers today recieved praise from Bihar government which said it would like to implement them too.
“We also appreciate the Shop and Estabalishment rules in West Bengal and would like to follow them in our state,” Bihar Labour minister Janardan Singh told reporters here after a discussion with his West Bengal counterpart Purnendu Bose at Writers’ Buildings.
He said that Bihar would like to adopt a common stand with West Bengal to take up with the Centre the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna. Under the centrally-sponsored scheme, a BPL family is given Rs 30,000 per year which should be raised to Rs one lakh due to rise in treatment cost and for that matter Bihar would like to seek cooperation from the West Bengal government.
Singh said that he also discussed with Bose the Aam Bima Yojna, a 50:50 centre-state schemes, where Bihar government would like the state’s cooperation in demanding full responsibility of the state for implementation