Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Serajul Islam & Others Vs The State of West Bengal & Others dated 16/02/2024. The matter related to illegal stone quarrying activities in Mouza Madna, PS Nalhati, District Birbhum. Committee report on affidavit, February 15, 2024 …
KOLKATA, 26 JUNE: The state water resource investigation and development department has declared 38 blocks out of 341 blocks as "black zone'' where the groundwater level has gone down alarmingly. Mr Swapan Mahapatra, state minister for water resource, investigation and development department, said, these blocks have been identified in Burdwan, …
The state irrigation minister has asked all officials of his department to monitor the rivers whose waters are touching the danger level. Dr Manas Bhuniya after meeting senior officials of the irrigation department said that the Met office has informed the department of the chances of heavy rain within three …
KOLKATA, 11 JUNE: Today the season's death toll due to heatstroke rose higher, with five more dying as a result of persistent high temperature. In a tribal area in Birbhum, Laxmi Murmu (45) died of a sunstroke as temperatures in the district soared to 45.1 degrees Celsius. In Purulia, heatwave …
- 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 …
SURI, 29 FEB: In a major crackdown on illegal sawmills in the district, officials of the forest department have sealed at least 75 establishments in the past five days. Forest department officials claimed that the move will help protect forests in the Birbhum and Jharkhand border areas. The state government …
We studied the waterbird diversity and abundance in a newly constructed wetland in South Bengal for 14 years right from its establishment. Soon after its construction, the wetland began to attract a rich diversity of waterbirds and with the passage of time has proved its potentiality to achieve the status …
The coal ministry will invite a fresh application from state-owned miner NMDC Ltd for the allocation of India’s largest thermal coal block, Deocha Pachami, in West Bengal’s Birbhum district. The application, if favourably considered, could allow NMDC to float India’s largest coal mining company after Coal India, currently the near-monopoly …
KOLKATA, 15 JAN: The state government's decision to facilitate farming through watershed management in around 3.40 lakh hectares of land that has been lying barren due to water scarcity reinstates the faith that Miss Mamata Banerjee's priority remains agriculture. The state government has submitted a detailed project report (DPR) to …
RAMPURHAT, 4 DEC: The Birbhum Adivasi Gaonta (BAG) leaders have threatened to close down all crushing units in the Rampurhat area if the administration does not take steps against the illegal practice by Monday. A meeting was convened in Rampurhat’s Tumbuni village this afternoon by BAG members. They also organised …
RAMPURHAT, 23 NOV: The Birbhum Adivasi Gaonta (BAG) will go in for a fresh stir if the district administration does not take concrete steps against illegal mines and owners of stone crushing units. At a tripartite meet in October it was decided that the crushers and mines which have no …
ADMINISTRATION THREATENS TO SEAL UNITS IF OWNERS FAIL TO PRODUCE POLLUTION DOCUMENTS, TRIBAL BODY STICKS TO STAND RAMPURHAT, 19 OCT: The Birbhum district administration today asked owners of stone-crushing units of Rampurhat to produce their documents on pollution and land acquisition within a month. And if the owners fail to …
People of nearly 60 villages under three blocks of Bolpur sub-division have been drinking contaminated water due to sheer callousness of the panchayat and zilla parishad (ZP) authorities. A report from the public health and engineering (PHE) department has revealed that the water from tube-wells of those villages carry germs …
Calcutta, Aug. 7: The hospital chain run by cardiac surgeon Devi Shetty has submitted a detailed proposal to the Mamata Banerjee government for the development of crucial infrastructure now missing in rural hospitals. The blueprint proposes to set up dialysis units, diagnostic laboratories, cardiac catheterisation laboratories and coronary care units …
A project to set up a new railway bridge on river Brahmani has come to a halt following sheer unwillingness of the farmers at Birbhum’s Jagdhari village in the Nalhati I block area to part with their land. The farmers have already informed that they will not provide any land …
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
Over 14,000 people in West and East Midnapore were rendered homeless today as a swelling Kangshabati river breached mud embankments. The flooding in the low-lying villages was aggravated because water was released from the Tarafeni barrage. Irrigation officials said there was a surge of around 80,000 cusecs of water in …
This year, the first type 1 polio case has been reported in an 18-month-old girl in Howrah district of West Bengal. According to Union Health Ministry officials, the girl had not received any dose of the oral polio vaccine (OPV) before the onset of paralysis on January 13. Dr Hamid …
The state government would distribute 70,000 metric tons of potato, lying in cold storages in five districts, free of cost for mid-day meal and ICDS, finance minister Mr Asim Dasgupta announced today, admitting that the state exchequer had to drain off Rs 60 crore to
This study of the functioning of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme between February 2006 and July 2009 in Birbhum district, West Bengal reveals that in order to serve as an effective
At a time when the state is reeling under acute water scarcity, the government is yet to formulate a water policy, even after eight years since the National Water Policy came into being. The National Water Policy 2002, had made the formulation of State Water Policy mandatory, backed by an …
