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State Govt takes up project to conserve power

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In order to stop wastage of electricity during the monsoon season, the State Government has requested the people of the State as well as government offices to switch off power supply for at least half-an-hour every week.

 This is part of a campaign started by the State Government to generate awareness on power conservation, named ‘Save Energy, Save Earth and Environment’.

 This was decided at a meeting on June 25 at Nabanna, presided by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, where departments including Power, Panchayats and Water Resources took part. The meeting stressed the need for conserving energy and preventing wastage of power.

 The chief minister urged the Power Department to ensure uninterrupted power generation, distribution and transmission in the ongoing summer season, and also to ensure the irrigation sector is not affected due to power shortage.

Source: Millennium Post

Nusrat Jahan speaks on the demand for construction of Kendriya Vidyalaya in her constituency

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Good afternoon, Speaker Sir. This is my first speech in the Parliament. Sir, thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to raise a matter of urgent public importance. There has been a long standing demand to construct and start a Kendriya Vidyalaya within my Basirhat Parliamentary Constituency. There is no doubt that the Kendriya Vidyalayas are playing a pivotal role in imparting quality education in the country with uniform curriculum. And the performance of these schools are really appreciable.

Sir, I would request the Government to kindly expedite the setting up of a Kendriya Vidyalaya in my Basirhat Parliamentary Constituency of West Bengal.

Sir, Basirhat is in the border area where central employees are on vigil all through, 24X7. Moreover there are thousands of ex-servicemen and their families residing in and around Basirhat. Sir, within the 60 km radius there is no Kendriya Vidyalaya. The entire part of my constituency is backward with 86.81% of rural people and 13.19% of urban population. The Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe ratio is 25.34% and 6.56% respectively and people residing here cannot afford to send their children to private schools because of their minimal income. 

Sir, I would really request the government to kindly expedite the setting up of a Kendriya Vidyalaya and start the session from the next academic year. It’s of utmost importance.

Thank you, Sir.

 

Mimi Chakraborty speaks on the demand for flyovers at railway level crossings in her constituency

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Thank you so much Speaker Sir for  giving me an opportunity to speak. This is my first speech so I would like to seek all of your blessings. 

It has been a long demand of the people of my constituency Jadavpur for the construction of a flyover at Champahati railway station which is in Baruipur East. But in the past years no initiative has been taken on the project, for which over lakhs of people are still facing traffic congestion because of existing railway level crossing. It is more painful when a patient suffers and gets delayed in treatment and for students who reach their school late. 

There is also a similar problem in Sonarpur and in Bidyadharpur; both are under Sealdah division of Eastern Railway. I am sorry to inform the August House that there is no railway level crossing in Bidyadharpur as well, which is a prime demand to stop any accidents therein. I therefore urge upon the government to take immediate steps and start the projects urgently without any further delay. 

Thank you so much, Sir.

Kalyan Banerjee asks a Supplementary Question on the poor performance of BSNL and MTNL

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Thank you Hon’ble Speaker Sir for giving me a chance to ask this Supplementary Question. There are different data; I am not disputing the data at all. The point remains somewhere else. The point is, despite the Central Government’s intentions today, that in rural areas there would be netbanking, there would be internet connectivity, access to the internet; today not only in rural areas but in cities as well, 3G is not sufficient for netbanking or anything related to the internet.

My very specific question; intention of the Government is to make ‘Digital India’. This is very good, very appreciated but for making an effective ‘Digital India’ there needs to be an improvement in towers and enhancement upto 4G. Through you, Hon’ble Speaker Sir, I have a very specific question to the Hon’ble Minister. Are we in a position to make an enhancement upto 4G? Are we in a position to improve mobile towers? Everyone in the House will also agree that the MTNL telephone which has been given to us, we don’t get any connectivity.

 

Manas Bhunia asks Supplementary Questions on deaths due to air pollution

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Supplementary no. 1

Thank you, Chairman Sir. Will the Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change please share whether the government is aware that 40 per cent of the deaths in 2017 in Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Maharashtra were related to air pollution?

Supplementary no. 2

Is the government aware that there are more disability-adjusted life-years lost due to air pollution-related respiratory diseases than tobacco consumption? What steps does the government plan to take to counter the deaths due to the daily rising rate of air pollution?

Sukhendu Sekhar Roy asks Supplementary Questions on the import and production of coal, and on stopping illegal mining of coal

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Supplementary no. 1

Sir, it appears from the figures given in the reply that the domestic production of coal is declining whereas the supply of imported coal is rising very fast every year, despite the series of steps claimed to have been taken by the government. My question, through you Sir, to the Honourable Minister is, what are the reasons for the decline in the domestic production of coal  and the sharp rise in the import of non-coking or thermal coal?

Supplementary no. 2

Sir, I would request the Minister, through you, to do more homework because what I have referred to pertains to his reply only which is printed here – domestic production is declining and import is rising.

My second supplementary is, whether the government or for that matter, Coal India Limited has initiated any plan of action ion consultation with the coal-producing States to stop the illegal mining of coal?

Sudip Bandyopadhyay asks a Supplementary Question on GST

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Sir, the concept of GST had been read by the Honourable President in his address as “one country one tax one market,” and that is why GST was announced so hurriedly. For this reason, GST has really thrown up huge difficulties. My question to the minister is that, whether the government is now going to simplify GST further and if so, what steps are they going to take, and what would be the time limit to save the small industries of the country?

Saugata Roy proposes inclusion of matters of BSNL employees not getting salaries & closure of Jet Airways in the list of Govt business

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Sir, I propose that the following items be included in the list of Government business for the week commencing on June 24, 2019.

1. The condition of the public sector company, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), which is making huge losses, is very serious. Both permanent and contract workers of BSNL are not being paid their salaries for months. The contract workers are not receiving salaries for five to six months. This is a pathetic situation in a public sector undertaking.

2. The matter of Jet Airways, which was the premier airlines in the country and which is now lying closed, needs the attention of the Government. It has now been referred to the NCLT (National Company Law Tribunal). There are 20,000 employees, of which 1,000 are from Kolkata. All of them are out of their jobs. The Government should not sleep. It should do something about reopening Jet Airways.

Thank you, Sir

 

Shanta Chhetri makes Zero Hour mention on Centre’s delay in giving Scheduled Tribe status to 11 Hill communities

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I would like to draw the kind attention of this august House to the matter that the West Bengal Government vide their letter dated February 28, 2014 had recommended granting of schedule tribe status to 11 communities living in Sikkim, Darjeeling and other Gorkha-dominated areas.

In consequence to this proposal of West Bengal, the Central Government had constituted a committee to examine and recommend the granting of schedule tribe status to those 11 communities. However, several years have rolled by since.

The West Bengal Government has recommended these 11 communities because they fulfil the criteria of having primitive traits, distinctive culture, geographical isolation, shyness of contact with communities at large and extreme backwardness.

There is an urgent need to bring the highly deprived communities into the mainstream. There has already been a huge delay since the West Bengal Government submitted its recommendation way back in 2014.

Sir, its my humble request to the august House to seek a detailed explanation on the delay and set up a definite timeframe within which the Central Government would approve the State Government’s recommendations and grant these 11 communities scheduled tribe status and help create equal opportunities for all, which is the constitutional right of every Indian.

Thank you, Sir.

BJP will lose its deposits if elections are held on ballot papers: Abhishek Banerjee

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All India Trinamool Congress organised protest marches across Bangla today against the rising prices of fuel and other essential commodities. Leading the protests in South Kolkata was TMYC National President Abhishek Banerjee.

After the protest march from Golpark to Hazra, he addressed the gathering. He said that if elections are held on ballot papers, BJP will lose its deposits.

Highlights of his speech:

All of you are aware that yesterday, our chief minister, Mamata Banerjee had a meeting with the Trinamool Congress MLAs wherein a multi-pronged approach to ensure better reach of the State Government’s various schemes was taken.

It is on her instructions that we are organising these protests today, against the sudden spike in the prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas brought about by the Central Government. Despite being organised at short notice, you all have participated whole-heartedly in the protests and therefore we are thankful to all of you.

Unlike the BJP Government at the Centre, our government in the State did not come about with the help of the CRPF and the Election Commission.

Our government was elected to power with the help of the love and affection of the people of Bangla. Therefore even if the BJP Government wants, it will not succeed in toppling our government.

Our loss in the just-concluded Lok Sabha election did not come about because of loss of popularity but because of the transferring of the CPI(M) votes to the BJP.

Despite the decrease in the number of seats from 34 in 2014 to 22 in 2019, our vote percentage increased from 39 per cent to 44 per cent. Out of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in Bangla, Trinamool Congress has increased the vote percentage by 5 per cent in 41 seats.

Also, all the party offices captured by the BJP over the last few days have been captured back by us. Let me warn others, if you start doing politics using force, be prepared to go all the way.

Let me warn the BJP, you may have more than 300 MPs in Parliament but each of our 22 MPs is capable of putting up a fight with 20 of yours.

One must remember that despite the BJP, CRPF, Election Commission, Reserve Bank of India, CBI, ED and Income Tax Department on one side and the leader of our State, Mamata Banerjee alone on the other, we have managed to increase our vote percentage 44 per cent and halted the BJP’s shameless effort at bringing about religious polarisation in our State in its tracks.

The BJP has swept through Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh but has been stopped from achieving its target here.

Our fight will continue, for which we will give a renewed call at the annual July 21 (Ekushe July) rally. Mamata Banerjee’s Ekushe July rally in 1993 was for enforcing the ‘no identity card no vote’ policy, her rally in 2019 will be for bringing back voting through ballot paper in order to save democracy as we have caught the BJP’s tactics of hacking EVMs. The BJP will lose its deposits if elections are held on ballot papers.

Like so many times previously, we have once again hit the streets to protest against the burden brought on to the common man’s shoulder by increasing the prices of fuels. This is what Trinamool Congress is all about – always by the side of the people, unlike other political parties.

For every serious issue that the country is facing, like rising unemployment, farmer suicides and others, Narendra Modi has only one answer – chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’. This is what Bharatiya Janata Party is all about.

The BJP may chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ or ‘Jai Maa Kali’’ as much as they want, but will only go for ‘Jai Hind’, ‘Joy Bangla’ and ‘Vande Mataram’. We don’t confuse politics with religion.

My best wishes to all my Muslim brothers and sisters on the occasion of Eid tomorrow, and my best wishes are also there with all my Hindu brothers and sisters who celebrated the ‘Tirodhan Dibas’ of Baba Loknath yesterday.

On June 6, Trinamool Congress workers will organise massive protest marches on the issue of fuel price hike in all the 144 wards of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.

We won’t stop till we throw the BJP out of power. We will protest inside Parliament, outside Parliament, in blocks, cities, towns and villages.

I ask all of you to rise up against the BJP, which vandalised the statue of a person as great as Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar.

The time for resting is over. We must all gear up to fight with all our might and ensure that in 2021, the BJP is given a burial through democratic means, the BJP which is out to destroy the culture of our State.

The people of the country have also realised that there is only one leader who can take the fight to the BJP, and that leader is Mamata Banerjee.

The BJP leaders are saying that Mamata Banerjee would be sent 10 lakh postcards with ‘Jai Shri Ram’ written on them. But before they could do that, we have sent them 25 lakh WhatsApp messages containing ‘Joy Bangla’, ‘Jai Hind’ and ‘Mamata Banerjee Zindabad’.