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 …
Sept. 17: The Centre today announced a diesel subsidy of up to Rs 500 per hectare to farmers in drought-hit Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand to help them irrigate their fields.
Birbhum is the latest minefield where Adivasi lives are at stake THE FIRST time Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee met Rabin Soren was five years ago; the West Bengal chief minister gave the 23-yearold his diploma for completing a government-run course in mass communication. The second meeting was on 9 July this year, …
Ananya DuttaKOLKATA: The threat of a drought looms over several parts of West Bengal because of inadequate rainfall which could have serious repercussions on paddy production, Minister for Agriculture Naren Dey said here on Thursday.
Calcutta, July 18: Just as India was making progress in checking polio, Bengal threatens to spoil the effort because of what state officials themselves admit to be
Keya Sarkar / New Delhi May 1, 2010, 0:24 IST Even before reduce, reuse and recycle became the environmental watchwords, Birbhum, the district that Santiniketan falls under, had a tradition of recycled textiles. While Birbhum shares with many other areas of both West Bengal and Bangladesh the tradition of the
Coal being lifted from a pit in Salanpur, on the outskirts of Asansol town. The illegally mined coal being transported across the dry Ajoy river towards Birbhum. Pictures by Gour Sharma Asansol, April 21: Looting of coal has become such a lucrative proposition for villagers in the Durgapur-Asansol coal belt …
1. Men mount wagons to dump coal on the ground at Hazratpur dump yard of Borjore on Tuesday 2. The coal emptied from the rakes piles up while police keep watch 3. The looted coal is carried away from the dump yard in baskets 4. Coal is transferred from baskets …
KOLKATA, 30 March: The state land use board has recommended that the state government should set up irrigation facilities for equal quantum of single crop land land acquired to set up industry to ensure food security even as the state agriculture minister, Mr Naren De admitted in the Assembly that …
Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) has taken up a project to identify people affected by arsenic contamination in Karimpur area of Nadia. It would tap the contamination in the cells of these people and gauge the extent of damage. The initiative was taken up after it was found that many …
Though the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) has reduced discharge of water considerably today, the flood situation in five districts mainly Hooghly and Howrah remained grim. State finance minister today said three more people died of floods yesterday taking the total toll to six. A total of 17 lakh people have …
MALLARPUR, 4 SEPT: The State Bank of India (SBI) has adopted a tribal village in Birbhum district to improve the livelihood of the residents. This kind of a socio-economic effort would be the first-of-its-kind in Birbhum. The tribal village, Melteldanga under Mayureswar I block area, was selected by the state …
With the Supreme Court refusing to stay a Calcutta High Court order banning commercial vehicles over 15 years old from Kolkata, transport operators Friday decided to keep all such vehicles off the roads from Saturday. Parked trucks as their drivers participate in 24-hour strike to protest against Calcutta High Court …
MALLARPUR, 19 JUNE: Even as the state government is gearing up to launch an operation to flush out the Maoist-led tribal menace in Lalgarh, the tribals of the area are trying to make the most of the government facilities they are entitled to. The youth of Birbhum's 20 villages in …
Cyclone Aila, that hit parts of West Bengal last month, has damaged flowers and betel vines cultivated in six districts ~ Midnapore East, Howrah, North 24 Parganas, Birbhum, Nadia and Burdwan ~ and the loss is estimated at Rs 13 crore, according to a preliminary assessment done by the state …
MURAROI, 2 JUNE: About 45 residents of Dhutura village near Muraroi in Birbhum have been suffering from chicken pox for the past three days. An awareness campaign has been initiated by the district health administration to stop chicken pox from spreading to neighbouring villages. The outbreak at Dhutura was first …
RAMPURHAT, Feb. 1: The Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme (PPIP) has come to a halt in the villages of Ambha and Kushmore, in Birbhum's Rampurhat II and Muraroi II block areas respectively. The villagers have boycotted the programme in order to prompt developments ~ Ambha is demanding immediate electrification, while Kushmore …
A survey of households in six villages in Birbhum district of West Bengal provides evidence that decentralisation in delivery of water supply leads to better quality of services. The participation of the local government in distribution of water supply, and household contribution to operation and maintenance appear to have a …
SURI: Health authorities and animal resources development (ARD) department officials in Birbhum are dreading another bird flu outbreak in the district after abnormal poultry bird deaths were reported from neighbouring Malda district. The health authorities have already instructed the medical superintendents of district hospitals to keep medicine and other equipment …
The Birbhum district administration today admitted that it had failed to provide basic facilities to tribal villages. The authorities sought time to implement development schemes. Nearly 300 tribals, under an apolitical banner
