00:00And we're getting some breaking news coming in.
00:03Religion-based assistance schemes under the Madarsa Department
00:07and the Information and Cultural Department will be discontinued in Bengal.
00:13West Bengal Cabinet stops religion-based schemes that says
00:17we have decided to discontinue assistance schemes being run on the basis of religion.
00:22This decision was taken during a state cabinet meeting
00:25and certain schemes under the Madarsa Department
00:28and the Information and Cultural Affairs Department will now be stopped.
00:32The government has said that these schemes providing assistance on the basis of religion
00:36will not be continued further.
00:38Chief Minister Suvendu stops Mamza's religious schemes.
00:44The schemes on the basis of religion have been axed
00:48and no more Madarsa-linked aid in Bengal.
00:51Now, Anupam Mishra is joining me live on this story.
00:54Anupam, which are these schemes?
00:57Which schemes are being stopped?
00:58The culture department, the Madarsa department,
01:03what are these schemes that are now being affected?
01:10Well, Anisha, let me clarify you.
01:12First of all, that the decisions taken in the second cabinet of Suvendu Sarkar
01:16is that some schemes, they have not specified these schemes,
01:23but they have specifically told that some schemes related to Madarsa Department
01:28and Information and Cultural Department will be discontinued.
01:31These schemes will run through this month only,
01:34but after that these schemes will be discontinued.
01:37But they have not specified which schemes,
01:40whether it is the Muajjam Bhatta or Imam Bhatta or Purohid Bhatta.
01:44So, we can't say yet these are the schemes which they have discontinued,
01:48but the decision has taken few schemes
01:51which comes under the Madarsa Department,
01:54under the Information and Cultural Department,
01:56specifically based on religious assistance.
02:00All right, thank you very much for that, Anupam Mishra.
02:02Suvendu cabinet says Madarsa-linked schemes will be stopped,
02:05but no clarity yet on which scheme exactly
02:08is the Bengal Sarkar talking about.
Comments