KOLKATA, 28 JUNE: The state forest department minister Hiten Barman announced the doubling of compensation to the next of kin of anyone dying in man-animal conflict at the state Assembly today. The minister also announced the doubling of the compensation for the loss of crops in elephant raids even as intra-coalition dissension surfaced followed by the passing of budgets of forest, tourism, law and judicial, food processing industries and agriculture departments were passed in the House during the day. State minister for food processing and horticulture department, Mr Ujjal Biswas drew flak from his coalition ally Congress after Mr Asit Mitra said that it was the middlemen rather than the farmers of Hooghly and Howrah who would benefit from the bumper potato production. He felt contract farming would end the woes of these farmers. Funds have been earmarked for the cleaning up of Beliaghata lake which would be better than the lake at Chandigarh, state tourism minister Rachpal Singh said. He accused the previous government of selling tourist lodges and Great Eastern Hotel without taking much initiative to improve tourism. The present dispensation could not get down to work quickly as the website of the tourist department was full of inaccuracies, he added. State law and judicial department minister, Moloy Ghatak was caught on the wrong foot when Congress legislator, Mr Sukhvilas Varma accused the government of dragging its feet over setting up of the Circuit Bench of Calcutta High Court at Jalpaiguri. The administrative order for the construction of the main building of this proposed court is yet to be issued, the Congress MLA said. Describing his department to be the most neglected one of the previous regime, Mr Ghatak laid the blame for delay at his predecessor's door and said it had neither sanctioned a plan for this proposed court nor had it vetted by Calcutta High Court. A new tender for this work would be called in one to one and a half month, Mr Ghatak said. Meanwhile, all vacancies have been filled up.