West Bengal govt reduces total number of departments
Aiming to reduce administrative costs, West Bengal government on Friday reduced the number of its departments from 63 to 52 by merging 21 departments into 10. The net reduction of the government departments would be 11, state Finance Minister Amit Mitra said. The decision was also taken to increase efficiency and ensure better delivery of public services, he added.
In a view to curb costs, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today brought down the number of its departments from 63 to 52 by merging 21 departments into 10."With the merger of these 21 departments into 10 new merged departments, the net reduction of the number of number of state government departments will be 11, ie from the existing 63 number to 52," said state Finance Minister Amit Mitra.