Tripura has higher per capital income than Bengal, says Union Cooperative Minister Amit Shah
TRIPURA

Tripura has higher per capital income than Bengal, says Union Cooperative Minister Amit Shah

The Union Home and Cooperative Minister Amit Shah on Sunday claimed that the per capita income of the state of Tripura is higher than West Bengal.

Addressing an event of Cooperative conference here at Agartala Rabindra Bhavan on Sunday, the Union Minister Amit Shah said, “The per capita income in the BJP-ruled Tripura is now Rs 1.77 lakh higher than the neighbouring state of West Bengal.”

“Before the BJP came to power in Tripura in 2018, the per capita income in the state was Rs 98,000, and it has now increased to Rs 1.77 lakh,” he said, adding that due to the good governance of the BJP, the per capita income in Tripura exceeded West Bengal.

He said, “A new era of development started after the BJP came to power in Tripura in 2018. More than 80 percent people in the state are getting health insurance benefits of Rs 5 lakh. Equal number of people got gas connection. Earlier those who were in the government in Tripura has worked only for communist cadres. They did not even think about anyone else except the cadres.”

He said that a godown with a capacity of 2,000 metric tons will be built on a cooperative basis in Tripura. If this plan materializes, there will not be a single tehsil in the state without a storage facility. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is working on many schemes for the development of poor people, he added.

Saying that India has advanced to fifth position in the global economy from the earlier 11th place, HM Shah said that the country is all set to become the third-largest global economy by 2027.

He said that not only the country, the prosperity of each Indian family is the ultimate target of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government, and added that 70 per cent farmers of Tripura are able to produce organic products while the government is trying to increase the income of the farmers.