New Delhi: Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to meet Finance Minister P Chidambaram at 12.30 pm on Thursday to discuss the financial package for her debt-ridden state.
Mamata is also likely to discuss restructuring of over Rs 2 lakh crore debt that Bengal owes to the Centre with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh later in the day.
Sources said that the Prime Minister and President Pranab Mukherjee had met to discuss a package for West Bengal and the latter had expressed his desire to support the state in repayment of loans.
Mamata was on Wednesday hosted a dinner at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Mamata went straight to the Rashtrapati Bhavan after attending the UPA Coordination Committee meeting which was attended by the Prime Minister, Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi and other key constituents of the government.
It was the first meeting between Mamata and Pranab since he was elected to the top constitutional post.
West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra had earlier said the state government has a debt burden of Rs 2,08,382.58 crore as on March 31, 2012. According to the details submitted by the Accountant General, the loan till February, 2012 was Rs 2,05,368.13 crore, Mitra had said.
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