WB-MAMATA-REFUGEES

West Bengal Chief Minister

Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said her government will ensure

that the refugees, settled in different parts of state for

years, were given land deeds at the earliest.

The exercise would benefit those people having been

driven away from their native place years back and settled

here for generations, she said.

Banerjee, who was attending an administrative meeting

here in Nadia district, said the district magistrates of

various districts have been asked to prepare a complete list

of the refugee families and the land occupied by them.

Besides the department of land and land reforms, the

refugee rehabilitation departments have also been asked to

finalise a list at the earliest, so that steps can be

initiated to provide land deeds to the refugees, living on the

same piece of land for years, she said.

She regretted that similar exercise had not been

carried out in all these years by the previous regime.