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 …
Calcutta, Sept. 25: At least 53 lakh families in Bengal have to walk half a kilometre or more for drinking water, according to provisional census data. The figure, which translates into 27 per cent of the households surveyed in the state, is far higher than the national average of 18 …
Aug. 27: The Union environment ministry has raised concerns over the proposed power plant on Nayachar island, casting a cloud on the Rs 8,600-crore investment proposal by NRI businessman Prasoon Mukherjee. At a meeting earlier this month with Bengal government officials, an expert appraisal committee under the central ministry asked …
Revised steel plan deadline: Calcutta, Aug. 22: The state government has threatened to take back land given to three investors if they fail to start projects soon. The government has asked Jai Balaji Group, Adhunik and Shyam Steel to come up with revised plans by the end of this month. …
KOLKATA, 25 JULY: The state water resources investigation and development department today formed a seven-member committee to assess the situation with the state's groundwater ahead of preparing the state’s water policy. Headed by the secretary of the department, the committee includes environmentalists and scientists. Mr Saumen Mahapatra, water resources investigation …
PURULIA, 19 JULY: Work is scheduled to start next month on a project designed to bring piped water to all of economically backward Purulia district, eradicating the extreme water shortage here. About 19 per cent of the district's population now gets piped water, according to public health engineering department executive …
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 …
KALNA, 28 MAY: The state PHE minister, Mr Subrata Mukherjee, said: “We have prioritised providing filtered drinking water to domestic quarters.” The minister was inaugurating a Rs 41-crore drinking water project in Purbasthali here today. The project aims to facilitate 1.78 lakh people by 2019 living in 62 moujas across …
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 …
PURULIA, 13 MARCH: Uncertainty looms over the 1320-MW Adra thermal power project, announced in 2010 by then railway minister Mamata Banerjee, even as the country prepares for another railway budget tomorrow. Miss Banerjee, in her Budget speech, announced setting up of this thermal power project at Adra, which would entail …
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. …
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 …
PURULIA, 4 DEC: Around 1,500 students of several primary and upper primary schools in Ayodhya hills have been studying in classrooms that do not have either electricity or proper drinking water facilities for many years now due to lack of funds. There are around 22 primary and upper primary schools …
. 20,000-cr project was put on a backburner after demand for steel got affected due to recession in 2008 After three years of shilly-shallying, a business group looks set to give wide-eyed villagers in Salboni in West Bengal their first factory and the state its largest industrial project in years. …
Oil and gas major ONGC and two other companies have taken preliminary interest in developing solar projects at Purulia district in West Bengal. The total capacity of such project(s) may range up to 900 MW. Solar power generated, is proposed to be sold to state utility-run 900-MW Purulia Pumped Storage …
Purulia, Nov. 6: A Maoist couple in Purulia today became the first to surrender after Mamata Banerjee announced a revised rehabilitation package in August. Some rebel sources suggested that the two might have been persuaded to give themselves up by police who had “picked them up” a couple of months …
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 …
It is ironic that India, which is aiming to become a hub of medical tourism and boasts of world class medical facilties, cannot provide even basic midwifery services and primary health care to thousands of pregnant women. Not only is the country’s maternal mortality rate high, in some districts like …
PURULIA, 14 SEPT: Despite the Centre having introduced the Forest Rights Act in 2006 to distribute forest land to the tribals, the district administration here is yet to do so for most of the Kheria Sabars due to its lackadaisical attitude. A senior official of land and land revenue department …
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 …
