Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday assured West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of examining the state's dues for various central assisted schemes.
“The chief minister has given me a letter of the outstanding account of various schemes the state is entitled to. I am certainly going to examine that,”Jaitley told reporters after a 50-minute meeting with Banerjee at the state secretariat where Finance minister Amit Mitra was also present.
He said "He is coming to Delhi and there we will call the concerned departments handling the schemes so that dues of Bengal government can be looked into."
Published 23 August 2014, 18:41 IST