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Centre praised us for reducing revenue gap: Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took to her official social media handles to apprise the people of the achievement of her state.

Centre praised us for reducing revenue gap: Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee (Photo: IANS/File)

The Centre has praised the West Bengal government for registering a revenue surplus in March 2018 at a time when the country registered a revenue deficit.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took to her official social media handles to apprise the people of the achievement of her state.

“You will be happy to know that Government of India has congratulated West Bengal for not only bringing down rapidly the revenue gap in State GST, but also registering a revenue surplus in March, 2018,” she wrote.

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West Bengal’s revenue gap recorded a surplus of 3 per cent in March 2018. In August 2017 the gap was 33.4 per cent, the Trinamool Congress supremo informed.

“The performance of the state has been far better than that of the country as a whole,” she said, adding that India’s revenue deficit was 17.9 per cent in March 2018.

According to reports, Union finance secretary Hasmukh Adhia had on 13 April written to West Bengal chief secretary Maloy De praising the unique achievement of the government led by Mamata Banerjee.

The Chief Minister also said that the Government of India has acknowledged Bengal for outstanding work in decentralised planning by Gram Panchayat.

“We are proud of Bengal Gram Panchayats, Panchayat Samitis and Zilla Parishads and it is our commitment to carry forward the development agenda of the people with utmost efforts,” she said.

Reports say that in the first year of the GST, West Bengal recorded an overall 16 per cent jump in revenue collections from Rs 45,000 crore in 2016-17 to Rs 52,690 crore in 2017-18.

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