State Govt giving job-oriented training to women

State Govt giving job-oriented training to women

Posted on October 30, 2019 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

In a bid to empower women by making them self-reliant, the State Labour Department has taken up an initiative of providing job-oriented training to women seeking employment. The Directorate of Employment under the department is directly conducting the courses.

Various employment exchanges are conducting training camps in the districts for upgrading the skills of female job-seekers who have enrolled themselves with the State Employment Bank, which is maintained by the department.

The training courses are related mostly to various domestic work, such as housekeeping, methods of child and elderly care, and first aid.

The focus areas of the training programme are handling various domestic appliances, arranging first aid and understanding the safety measures while operating various domestic instruments. The women are also provided training on operating computers and banking operations.

The training is imparted in batches, where each batch comprises of 25 persons. Till March 2019, 355 batches had been trained, which comes to around 8,800 women. Rs 2.63 crore was spent on the training by the State Government in financial year 2018-19.

North Bengal should be ready to give befitting answer: Didi on NRC

Posted on October 25, 2019 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

“North Bengal should be ready to give a befitting answer. We don’t want NRC. We don’t want to create divide among people and communities using the Citizens Amendment Act. We want all to coexist in peace without any division and without any violence. There is nothing to worry, nothing to get frustrated over. There will be no NRC,” stated Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Siliguri while inaugurating a Kali Puja on Thursday.

The CM also said, “Bangla never says we will allow this festival and won’t allow that festival. Hindu-Muslim-Christian-Sikh-Parsi-Jain-Gorkha-Bengali-Rajbanshi – we all coexist here in peace and harmony. People of all faiths and backgrounds come together to celebrate festivals.”

The CM, who is on a tour of North Bengal, returned from Kurseong to the plains on Thursday, where she inaugurated the Kali Puja organised by Biplab Smriti Athletic Club in Pradhan Nagar, Siliguri. Earlier during the day, the Chief Minister visited the Netaji Museum at Giddepahar on the fringes of Kurseong for the first time.

After garlanding the bust of Netaji, Banerjee said while talking to media persons: “The condition of the building was very bad. In 2017 we had thoroughly renovated it keeping the heritage character of the house. The house has been declared a heritage too. I have come to see if the renovation work has been done properly.”

Bangla gains highest success in recovering/ tracing missing children

Posted on October 25, 2019 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

After a delay of two years, the Crime in India report for 2017 has been released by the National Crime Records Bureau.

As per the report, Bangla registered the highest success in terms of children being recovered or traced in 2017. This jump in the index is largely due to the State’s improved performance in preventing human trafficking.

In 2017, 11,849 missing children below 18 years were recovered or traced in Bangla, which accounted for 16.82 per cent of all children traced (70,440) throughout the country.

In terms of crimes against women, Kolkata recorded 15 victims of rape and 53 victims of stalking in 2017, against 1,170 victims of rape and 472 victims of stalking in Delhi. As per the report, 3,59,849 cases of crimes against women were reported in the country.

Kolkata has also emerged as the safest among 19 cities (population of 20 lakh or more), including the metros, in terms of crimes committed per lakh population.

Ten-fold decrease in trafficking in Bangla

Posted on October 25, 2019 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

The latest National Crime Records Bureau report (crimes for 2017) has revealed that the number of cases related to trafficking in Bangla has undergone a ten-fold reduction.

From 3,579 in 2016 the number of trafficking cases reduced to 357 in 2017. Consequently, the number of victims below18 years who were trafficked has also decreased significantly – from 3,113 in 2016 to 319 in 2017.

Programmes like Swayangsinddha, mass awareness and active participation of the police at all levels are the primary reasons for these achievements.

Crime rate has reduced significantly in Bangla, NCRB data shows

Posted on October 25, 2019 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

The latest National Crimes Records Bureau (NCRB) report was published recently, tabulating data for crimes committed in 2017. Among the facts that stand out is the reduction in most types of crimes in Bangla.

The dip in crimes is in respect of various fields, some of which are given below (percentage change with respect to 2016):

* Murder and culpable homicides: -4.6%

* Kidnapping and abduction: -14.6% (national average is 7.7%)

* Robbery and dacoity: -26.2% (national average is -5%)

* Sexual assault: -8.8% (national average is 0%)

* Cruelty by husband/relatives: -13.7% (national average is -6.7%)

Besides these, human trafficking in the State has reduced by 10 times. Another thing to be proud of is the fact that various statistics prove that Kolkata is the safest city in the country, with the crime rate down by 31 per cent in four years.

Kolkata safest city, says NCRB report

Posted on October 25, 2019 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

Kolkata has emerged as the safest among 19 Indian cities, including the metros, in crimes committed per lakh population, according to the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) published recently.

The crimes per lakh people fell from 159.6 in 2016 to 141.2 in 2017, which is significantly better than the national average of 469.2 for the 19 cities with a population of 20 lakh or more.

The city’s crime rate has, in fact, been on a downward slide for the past four years, with the total number of cases declining from 26,161 in 2014 to 19,925 in 2017, a decline of 31.3 per cent.

This dip in the crime rate is a result of improved policing following increased focus on infrastructure development, training and better manpower in the city police force.

Panchayat in North 24 Parganas gets award for being child-friendly

Posted on October 23, 2019 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

The Sarberia Agarhati gram panchayat in Sandeshkhali-I block, North 24 Parganas has been awarded the Child-Friendly Gram Panchayat Award 2019.

This award by the Central Government recognises the work done by the gram panchayat for adopting child-friendly practices in terms of ensuring vaccination/immunisation of children, optimum school enrolment, attendance of teachers in schools, reduction of dropout rate in schools, open defecation free (ODF) status, implementation of Mid-Day Meal Scheme, drinking water facilities, etc.

Besides these, Sarberia Agarhati gram panchayat has taken effective measures in taking children out of child labour and stopping trafficking of children.

The gram panchayat has organised groups of children in every locality into ‘community cadres’, and some of them have also been inducted into child welfare committees. Thus, these community cadres ensured that any issue regarding children gets communicated easily to the administration.

Bangla’s gram panchayats win national awards

Posted on October 23, 2019 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

Bangla’s panchayati raj system has been selected among the best in the country. Four gram panchayats, two panchayat samitis and one zilla parishad have been rewarded. The appraisal year was FY 2017-18.

Among the four gram panchayats, three have been awarded the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Panchayat Sashaktikaran Puraskar (DDUPSP) while the other one has got the Nanaji Deshmukh Rashtriya Gaurav Gram Sabha Puraskar (NDRGGSP). The two panchayat samitis and zilla parishad have been awarded the DDUPSP.

Sreerampur gram panchayat (Puyrbasthali-I block, Purba Bardhaman district) has been awarded under the category of ‘Sanitation’ while Ilambazar gram panchayat (Ilambazar block, Birbhum district) has been awarded under the category of ‘Revenue Generation’.

The gram panchayat of Bankadaha (Bishnupur block, Bankura district) has been awarded the DDUPSP in the ‘General’ category.

Among the panchayat samitis, Jaypur in Bankura district and Rajganj in Jalpaiguri district have been awarded while at the district level, Birbhum zilla parishad was awarded.

The Nanaji Deshmukh Rashtriya Gaurav Gram Sabha Puraskar (NDRGGSP) was awarded to the Sarboth gram panchayat in Garbeta-II block, Paschim Medinipur for outstanding performance through effective gram sabha meetings, especially with respect to improvements in the social and economic structure of the villages under it.

Bangla ahead in jobs for engineering graduates

Posted on October 23, 2019 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

Bangla is ahead of other States in terms of the percentage of engineering students getting jobs after graduating, according to the latest AICTE data. All India Council for Technical Education is the body responsible for overseeing technical education across the country.

The percentage was 51.45 (27,675 got jobs on passing out of 53,791) in financial year (FY) 2018-19. This percentage, it may be noted, has been rising steadily over the last couple of years, whereas it was 48.46% (26,603 out of 54,897) in FY 2017-18, in FY 2016-17, it was 43.3% (24,914 out of 57,544).

This is much higher than in States like Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, etc, where many more students enrol but lesser percentages get jobs.

For example, in Gujarat, out of the between 90,000 and one lakh who took admission in 2018-19, only 24,636 got jobs. In Uttar Pradesh, out of around 1.83 lakh, about 68,000 got jobs. In Tamil Nadu, out of 2.5 lakh, 1,81,721 got jobs.

These numbers point to the much better quality of engineering education in Bangla. After all, some of the best institutions and universities in the country are located here.

No detention centre to come up in Bengal: Mamata Banerjee

Posted on October 23, 2019 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

Bangla Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday ruled out any possibility of detention centres coming up in West Bengal on the lines of such camps for keeping illegal foreigners being set up in states like Assam and Karnataka.

“I say with all responsibility in the presence of all government officers that we have no plans to undertake any NRC (National Register for Citizens) exercise in our state.
“So the question of constructing any detention camp does not arise. It can only come up if we construct it,” she said addressing an administrative meeting at Uttarkanya – the North Bengal branch secretariat of the state government near Siliguri.

The Chief Minister said the NRC exercise could be undertaken in Assam as it was part of the Assam accord, 1985.

The CM said the NRC would not happen in Bengal as “we run the government here”.
“They could carry out such an exercise in Assam, as the matter was a part of the Assam Accord of 1985, and because the state has a BJP government. In this state, we run the government.”
She also said the CAB, if passed, would render people as foreigners for six years. “So Indians, and particularly Bengalis, will become foreigners for six years. What will you do with such people for six years? And then, what will happen?” she said.