Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
- Partha to answer questions of industrialists at closed-door session today Will private investors get the government’s help in getting land for industry? What is the status of the state’s land bank? How can investors secure permission to get ceiling-surplus land from government companies? Answers to some of these questions …
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh today rejected 18,000 km of road projects under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) proposed by the West Bengal government. He made the announcement at a high-level meeting attended among others by West Bengal rural development secretary Saurav Das. The state government delegation had …
Durgapur, April 12: Mamata Banerjee will tomorrow flag off production at a coal mine in Bankura where around 2,000 land-loser families have been protesting the delay in being given jobs at the project for the past seven years. The Left Front government had started acquiring 694 acres in Borjora for …
BARJORA, 4 APRIL: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee is set to flag off coal production next week at a mine that supporters of her Trinamul have been opposing since 2004. The Trinamul’s opposition to the Trans-Damodar Sector coal mine forced the erstwhile Left Front government to suspend operations there. And Trinamul …
The present work seeks to assess the spatial distribution and level of fluoride in the groundwater of different blocks of Bankura district, West Bengal. This is the first concerted attempt to highlight the vicious presence of fluoride in the sub-surface environment of Bankura and its gradual ingress in tube well …
KOLKATA, 14 MARCH: Even while choosing the collision course with his party boss Miss Mamata Banerjee over hiking of passenger fares, railway minister Dinesh Trivedi proposed some new projects and 20 new trains for West Bengal. The long distant Express trains proposed by Mr Trivedi are Secunderabad-Shalimar AC Express (Weekly) …
KOLKATA, 13 FEB: The state public health engineering (PHE) department has invited experts from across the world to tour the four districts affected by arsenic seeking suggestions for the use of modern technology to tackle the problem. Apart from visiting the four districts ~ North 24-Parganas, Nadia, Murshidabad and South …
The spectre of infant deaths continued to haunt government hospitals in West Bengal, with 19 cases reported in Malda and Bankura over the past two days. While nine infants died in the Malda Medical College and Hospital, 10 children were reported dead in the Bankura Sammilani Medical College and Hospital. …
MALDA/BANKURA, 3 FEB: Nine babies at Malda Medical College and Hospital, and 10 babies at Bankura Sammiloni Medical College and Hospital have died in the last 48 hours. In Malda, health officials said the deaths were caused by low birth weights and malnutrition, the same causes they gave for previous …
BANKURA/PURULIA, 24 JAN: Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh today granted Rs 2,000 crore for providing safe drinking water to the people of Bankura district. “The Centre has approved Rs 1,000 crore for the first phase implementation of the project,” the minister said here today. Mr Ramesh held a meeting …
BANKURA, 29 NOV: The sale of chemical fertiliser in the black market has had an adverse effect on common farmers in various blocks of Bankura. This has hit potato cultivation, in particular, in the district. Potato cultivation requires a judicious management of minor irrigation and chemical fertilisers. Nitrogen, phosphate and …
Calcutta, Nov. 23: The state government has decided to upgrade primary health centres to provide round-the-clock service, including “basic obstetrics” such as neo and post-natal care and child immunisation, the move aimed at reducing the burden of referrals on medical college hospitals in Calcutta. According to a report prepared by …
Kolkata, 1 NOV: The Cabinet sub-committee on industry chaired by the chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee today gave its approval to the regularising of ceiling-excess land purchased by private investors who had signed agreements with various government departments, including Jindal Steel (JSW) and Patton, but attached a condition that the …
KOLKATA, 28 SEPT: The state public health engineering department will supply piped water to the arid districts of Purulia and Bankura from Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) by undertaking a Rs 2,600 crore project which would be funded by Japan International Coorporation Agency (JICA). State PHE minister Mr Subrata Mukherjee announced …
Chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee today urged the residents of low-lying areas to move to safer places in view of the forecast of heavy rains and release of water from DVC and Chandil barrages. The chief secretary, Mr Samar Ghosh, too, will hold deliberations with irrigation secretaries of Orissa and …
BANKURA, 7 SEPT: The state Public Health Engineering department today entered into an agreement of sharing 50 per cent of river water with a private steel unit in drought-prone Bankura. The agreement was signed between the PHE and a private secondary steel unit in the presence of state PHE minister, …
KOLKATA, 3 AUG: A 13-member committee, tasked with looking at the environmental pollution caused by sponge iron units, is going to be set up by the state environment minister, Mr Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar. The group will come up with recommendations for dealing with the problem. The minister announced the decision …
Seventeen people have died and over nine lakh people have been affected in the nearly fortnight-long spell of rains in West Bengal. Ten districts have been affected by heavy floods, Disaster Management Minister Javed Khan has said in the Assembly. He said that 25,750 mud houses have been damaged or …
The Mamata Banerjee government has taken up a scheme to supply 70 litres of safe drinking water daily to each household in rural areas by 2020. The chief minister has asked public health engineering (PHE) minister Subrata Mukherjee to draw up a detailed report on the project
More than 500 areas in North and South 24 Parganas districts vulnerable Incessant rain has led to a flood-like situation in some parts of West Bengal on Sunday, even as heavy rainfall is predicted over the next 24 hours. Parts of Bankura, Paschim Medinipur and Hooghly districts and the Sunderbans …
