Kolkata, Aug 24 (IANS) With her government nearing its first 100 days, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday reviewed the performances of all the ministers and asked them to shoulder responsibility for the projects being implemented by their respective departments.


"This was a historic meeting. She did a A-Z review of the performance of all the departments. We discussed the problems and the bottlenecks," Finance Minister Amit Mitra told media persons after emerging from the deliberations.

In case of projects lagging behind, the reasons were identified.

“From now on, every few month such meetings will be held,” Mitra said.

Asked whether people were singled out for non-performance, he denied it.

“No, no such thing happened today. The meeting was not called to pull up anybody”.

The chief minister also asked all her colleagues to take the onus for every project being implemented by their respective departments, he added.

Mitra said for projects were only 50 percent of the allocated funds have been released, the departments would have to spend that amount first, take a completion certificate and then submit the proposal for the remaining 50 percent of the project cost.

He said for projects being jointly carried out by the central and state governments, if the central funds were yet to be received, then the departments would have to complete their part of the work.

"Then they should take a completion certificate. We will take up the issue with the central government."

The Mamata Banerjee government, which was sworn in May 20, completes 100 days Saturday.