Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said the state would offer rural houses to five lakh families ahead of the panchayat elections scheduled to be held this year. "Five lakh families of the state would be offered houses under the state government's 'Bangla Gramin Abas Yojna'. We would provide this on January 29 across districts," she said while addressing at the inauguration of the "Mati Utsav" (soil festival) at Burdwan to promote the farm sector.