New Delhi: Mamata Banerjee returns to the cash-rich Railway ministry after a gap of ten years brimming with new ideas to help the unorganised sector, vendors and students but faces numerous challenges of modernisation, security and fallout of global recession.
The second time Railway Minister also has a tough job at hand of ensuring flow of funds for ambitious projects, implementation of some of which have been delayed but given the character that personifies her, mandarins at Rail Board are convinced she can deliver the goods.
Virtually written off by poll pundits five years back, the wheel has turned full circle for the Trinamool Congress chief.
From just one seat in Lok Sabha poll five years ago to the portals of power in Delhi with 19 seats, Banerjee has not only silenced her critics but has also charted a new course in her political graph.
She has promised "economic freedom" for marginalized sections to travel by rail and modernise the rail network with a human face.
Monthly passes for unorganised labour, vendors, domestic workers and landless labourers besides students would be her priority in the ministry. "It is a social obligation we have to fulfill for the humanity. We will try to give economy freedom to these sections for train travel," Banerjee told reporters hours after she was given the railway portfolio.
Dr.B.Mohammad Rafee M.A.M.Phil.,Ph.D. Researcher, Pedagogue Ph:+918951163373,9159615573 Email:basharafee@gmail.com Web:www.mohammad-rafee.blogspot.com
If Mamata is serious about doing something for the railways she can do it. But unfortunately at present she seems to be concentrating more on West Bengal.
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