kolkata mamatas men running key rural departments outshined those who hog the limelight in the yearend assessment at town hall on friday agriculture minister moloy ghatak food and civil supplies minister jyotipriya mullick panchayat minister subrata mukherjee turned out to be the top performers as those who could spend close to 80 of the budgetary allocations north bengal development minister gautam deb also got a pat in the back for the success of the low cost rural housing on homestead land programme some of the highprofile departments such as it industrial reconstruction transport environment science and technology drew flak from the cm for their slow progress in fund utilization going by the assessment partha chatterjee madan mitra and rabiranjan chatterjee have to work overtime i have to look after industry said mamata while much of the work could not proceed in this department because of the delay in land clearance under section 14y of the west bengal land reforms act mamata didnt even spare information cultural affairs department under her mamata threatened a shuffle among officers if the department fails to clear honorarium to rural artists her pet agenda going by the same parameter departments in social sector such as social welfare and women child development departments are the laggards these departments could not get the pass marks 35 even social welfare minister sabitri mitra has been able to spend only 25 of the budgetary allocation mitra was spared this time possibly because she took a bold political step against mamatas rival junior railway minister adhir chowdhury the other day by lodging a police complaint against chowdhury fire services department was on the same page with social welfare and women the cm wanted them to pull up their socks and reach the target fund utilization in the coming two months by february the chief minister wont rest she has already worked out a mechanism to track daywise progress of projects till its completion because the government has to spend rs 2159364 crore grantsinaid from the centre to spot spillovers coming out of the review meeting at town hall the chief minister held that there has been 32 growth in government expenditure it has been our persistent effort to monitor the development works accordingly we have held 54 meeting right from the block level to the highest level in the past twoandahalf years the results are evident we had a 32 financial growth in expenditure but most of these is spent to repay debt we have spent rs 15000 crore on development related expenditure so far besides financial problems left behind by the previous government that regime was unable to spend so much money for development the cm said while the cms claim came as a word of appreciation for finance minister amit mitra some departmental secretaries grumbled over files pending with finance department for instance it secretary satish tewari pointed out that proposals of rs 30 crore is lying with the finance department similarly industry officials held that industry