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To create a soothing environment for all, the State Government has issued a set a of rules control noise pollution.

Following are the rules and regulations:

Acquiring administrative permission to use loudspeakers and amplifiers mandatory

Using sound limiters with microphones compulsory

Using high-frequency amplifiers in open areas not desirable

100 metres in and around schools, courts and hospitals are ‘No Sound’ zones

Blowing horns, bursting firecrackers, using microphones and loudspeakers strictly prohibited in ‘No Sound’ zones

Sale and use of firecrackers producing noise of over 90 decibels (such as chocolate bomb, kali patka, dodoma, rocket bomb, etc) strictly prohibited

Using air horns must be avoided

Sale, use and stocking of air horns legally banned

Loudspeakers or any other high-pitched sound emission system while conducting any public programme strictly prohibited from 10 PM to 6 AM

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The Bangla Government over the years has introduced many health schemes and programmes for the welfare of citizens. In a new initiative, the State Government is going to set up 27 nursing schools across the State in the PPP model.

From 60 to a maximum of around 100 general nursing and midwifery courses will be taught at these schools. As a result, around 2,700 nurses will trained every year in Bangla.

A major aim of the State Government is to construct one or two nursing schools in all districts. Initially, these schools will come up at hospitals with minimum 100 beds. These nurse training centres will be set up in those super speciality hospitals across the State which do not have any nursing school or college.

At present, there are only 54 nursing schools/training centres across the State. These 27 nursing schools will increase the number to 81 (government and private). These schools will be set up in Siliguri, Jalpaiguri, Raiganj, Dinhata, Gangarampur, Chanchal, Mal, Karandighi, Domkal, Kandi, Kalyani, Bongaon, Arambagh, Bishnupur, Rampurhat, Kanthi, Bolpur, Asansol, Durgapur, Agara, Khatara, Salboni, Diamond Harbour, Raghunathpur, Kalna, Katwa and Haldia.

It may be mentioned, the health department already runs fair-price medicine shops and diagnostic centres successfully in the PPP model.

Source: Bartaman

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Mamata Banerjee has fulfilled another promise. The State Government has started constructing a piped drinking water project for Nandigram and its surrounding areas.

The project, worth Rs 700 crore, would be able to bring piped drinking water, at the rate of 70 litres per day per person, to every home in the blocks of Nandigram-1 and Nandigram-2 as well as the adjacent Nandakumar and Chandipur blocks.

The work, tender for which had been called on last February 8, would be over by 2020. As per the plan, water from the Rupnarayan River would be piped to a treatment plant, from which the purified water would be piped to two large ground reservoirs for storage. Water from these reservoirs would be supplied to the residents.

While announcing the project, the Public Health Engineering (PHE) minister, whose ministry is executing it, said that the treatment plant would have the capacity of purifying 112 million litres of water per day.

He added that this project is being built in such a way that it would be able to satisfy the region’s demand well into 2050, when estimates say that Nandigram-1 and Nandigram-2 blocks would require a daily delivery of 30.1 and 17.1 million litres of water, respectively daily.

The project is being funded by the Asian Development Bank, which has funded several rural projects in Bangla and has highly appreciated the successful execution of the projects by the State Government.

Source: Bartaman

 

The Utkarsh Bangla Scheme, implemented by the Paschim Banga Society for Skill Development (PBSSD), has been honoured with the prestigious SKOCH Award, winning the Skill Award in the ‘Gold’ category. The award was given away on February 25.

The PBSSD is a wing of the State Technical Education, Training and Skill Development Department.

Utkarsh Bangla was launched by the Bangla Government, as an initiative of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. This flagship scheme is a welfare scheme for school dropouts, with the aim to provide them vocational training and thus make them employable.

Under this scheme each youth receives free training ranging from 400 to 1,200 hours in tailoring, driving, repairing television and other electronic equipment, beauty courses, and various other professions. The annual target of the scheme is to train 6 lakh youth per year.

The scheme also ensures that the students get the opportunity of campus placements after their training gets over.

At present there are 570 training providers, imparting training to 3.23 lakh candidates in over 30 different sectors, in 1,198 short-term training centres, 250 industrial training institutes (ITIs), 152 polytechnics and 3,390 vocational training centres.

Five more Sufal Bangla stalls were inaugurated recently, in Kolkata and two other places, bringing the total across the State to 112. The Agricultural Marketing Minister inaugurated them on February 27 from the campus of the Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya.

The five permanent stalls are located in New Alipore, Charu Market and Kankurgachi in Kolkata, at the Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya campus in Mohanpur in Nadia district and in Itahar in Uttar Dinajpur district.

The Agricultural Marketing Department is also developing a home delivery app for all products available at the Sufal Bangla stalls.

The minister, while inaugurating the stalls, said that the aim of the State Government is to open 200 stalls, including permanent and mobile, in 2019.

Sufal Bangla stalls were introduced by the Bangla Government in 2014 to ensure the availability of fresh vegetables at the right price for common people. Now, besides vegetables, they sell fruits, aromatic rice, mustard oil, milk and milk products, meat and eggs too.

Source: Bartaman

Mamata Banerjee has formed a 12-member committee Sunday to chart modalities on election campaign in West Bengal for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, party’s secretary general Partha Chatterjee said.

The committee would look into the applications by aspiring candidates to fight the elections and forward those to the party’s supremo Mamata Banerjee, Mr Chatterjee told reporters.

The 12-member committee comprises Subrata Bakshi, Partha Chatterjee, Firhad Hakim, Aroop Biswas, Suvendu Adhikari, Abhishek Banerkee, Shashi Panja, Chandrima Bhattacharya, Moloy Ghatak, Jyotipriya Mullick, Subrata Mukherjee, and Derek O’Brien.

“The committee will look into election-related publicity and screening of applications of aspiring candidates in consultation with party supremo Mamata Banerjee,” Mr Chatterjee said.

 

In a step towards easing daily commute for passengers travelling on buses in Kolkata, tickets for the State-run Calcutta State Transport Corporation (CSTC) buses can be purchased through the ‘Chalo’ mobile app. This was confirmed by the West Bengal Transport Corporation on Monday, February 25.

As per the statement of the WBTC, the facility would be extended to all government buses in a few weeks’ time.

Usage of the app will help commuters eliminate the need to wait for the bus conductor to dispense tickets and to carry small change.

Tickets can be purchased by entering the start location and destination while payments can be made via credit or debit card, net banking, mobile wallet (through Jio Money, Freecharge,Ola Money, PayZapp, Mobikwik) or UPI system. It must also be mentioned that passengers can avail a discount worth 10 per cent of the fare on every purchase of a mobile ticket.

One can download the Chalo app for free from the Google Play Store

Source: Millennium Post