West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday said a new Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and cancer hospital will be built in North Bengal as promised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in its election manifesto.West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari said he will visit North Bengal every month to take stock of the developmental projects. (ANI photo)He added that he will visit North Bengal every month to take stock of the developmental projects.“As promised in the BJP’s Sankalpa Patra, north Bengal will get one IIT, one AIIMS, one IIM and one cancer hospital,” Adhikari told reporters at Siliguri in North Bengal.“Every month the chief minister and the cabinet will visit north Bengal. I will be coming here to work and not as a tourist. The north Bengal development minister will sit for at Uttarkanya, the mini secretariat situated in Siliguri, for the whole day once every week,” Adhikari said.This was Adhikari’s first visit to North Bengal since he took charge as the chief minister on May 9. The BJP swept the assembly elections in April this year while ousting the 15-year-old Trinamool Congress (TMC) regime.“The north Bengal development minister, who will be sitting at Uttarkanya once every week, will meet the common people from 9am to 11am. From 11am to 1pm he will hold administrative review meetings. From 2pm to 4pm, he will meet the MPs and MLAs in the region to ensure the implementation of all government schemes,” he added.Also Read: Will not tolerate vandalism, hooliganism: CM Adhikari on Park Circus violenceThe BJP first won a Lok Sabha seat (Darjeeling) in North Bengal in 2009. The party then made inroads in districts of North Bengal in the 2019 parliamentary elections. In the 2026 assembly polls, the BJP won 42 out of 54 assembly seats in North Bengal.Adhikari also called out the alleged corruption in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA).“The corruption in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration - the semi-autonomous development body for Darjeeling hills - will be investigated and those involved will be punished”, he said.