Govt goes all out to woo Mamata

In a bid to show how the Congress at the centre is ready to help its irked ally Trinamool Congress, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has offered to construct an additional 500 kilometres of rural roads to Mamata Banerjee-ruled West Bengal. Ramesh's overture came soon after an  related stories angry Banerjee threatened to pull out of the second UPA government after the latest petrol price hike. The latest sop is for the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY), to be taken up in collaboration with Asian Development Bank (ADB).

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