Centre will make adequate financial help to Bengal: Sachin Pilot

The Centre would give adequate financial assistance to the West Bengal government to help it tide over the economic crisis and make the state prosperous and vibrant, Union minister of state for IT and communications Sachin Pilot said here today.

''The Prime Minister, Finance Minister and the entire Union cabinet are seized with the situation in the state and adequate finance will be provided to bring prosperity and development to West Bengal,'' Pilot, a Congress leader, said at a programme at the WBPCC headquarter here.

Pilot, whose assurance was significant in view of the strained ties between his party and the Trinamool Congress in the state, said, ''We are alliance partners, both at the Centre and in West Bengal and I hope we will continue to work together and fulfill our promises made to the people by implementing policies.''