Bengal to give home guard jobs to kin of panchayat poll victims

The West Bengal Cabinet on Friday gave its approval to a proposal of employing one family member each of those killed in political clashes during the panchayat polls held earlier this year, a source said.

The West Bengal Cabinet on Friday gave its approval to a proposal of employing one family member each of those killed in political clashes during the panchayat polls held earlier this year, a source said. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in July announced providing a job to one member of each of those 19 people killed during the rural polls. ''The Cabinet today okayed the proposal of providing the job of a home guard for one family member of each of the deceased in the panchayat election,'' the source said.

The state government has already provided financial assistance of Rs 2 lakh to the family members of the 19 victims of the panchayat elections.