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July 5, 2014

Works for setting up Finance Directorate at Uttar Kanya begins

Works for setting up Finance Directorate at Uttar Kanya begins
Following Chief Minister Ms. Mamata Banerjee`s announcementof a separate finance directorate for North Bengal, a team of officials fromKolkata will be arriving at Uttarkanya, the branch secretariat, heretentatively on 8 July. The team is likely to set up an office to settlepension-related matters for teachers associated with both the primary andsecondary schools in the seven districts of the region.

The officials want to start preparations for a pensionsection at Uttarkanya at the earliest. A team of officials under the jointsecretary level officer from the Audit and Accounts Service will soon startfunctioning at Uttarkanya. The officials will check the space allotted for themat Uttarkanya. Teachers on the verge of retirement and those who have alreadyretired need not go to Kolkata for their pension paper work after the officestarts functioning here.

The West Bengal Chief Minister, during her North Bengal tripin the first of week of June, told at Bagdogra Airport about her government`splan to set up a separate finance directorate at Uttarkanya.