“Aligarh University has agreed to set up a campus in the state. I have chosen Murshidabad for the university campus, as 64 per cent of total Muslim population of the state lives in this district. The university has asked for 200 acre land in the district,” said Bhattacharjee.

He claimed that the state government has undertaken action plans for development of minorities in 12 districts, including Murshidabad, Malda and North Dinajpur. “We have made the action plan for the state, as no sub-plan for minorities was included in the 11th Five-Year Plan even after I asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh repeatedly about this,” he added.

Kolkata Police Commissioner Gautam Mohan Chakraborty, meanwhile, declared that the Kolkata

Police will set up four more computer training centres for the poor and minorities.

“Following the path of ‘Kiran’ computer training centre set up to provide the poor and minorities with computer-knowledge free of cost, we will set up four more centres in Garden Reach, Karea, Belgachia and Beltala by March 31, 2009,” said Chakraborty.