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Bangla CM launches Matir Srishti Scheme

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Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today launched a new developmental scheme called Matir Srishti for the ‘Paschimanchal’ (western) districts of Bankura, Purulia, Birbhum, Jhargram, Paschim Bardhaman and Paschim Medinipur.

The scheme consists of commercially exploiting the fallow land in these six districts through horticulture, fishery and animal husbandry. Those engaging in these activities would also get the benefits of other existing government benefits applicable to such activities. These would lead to additional generation of income, which would be of great help to farmers in dry regions.

Matir Srishti envisages making 50,000 acres of fallow land commercially useful and through it, bringing benefits to about 2.5 lakh people. The lead administrator of the scheme would be the Water Resources Investigation & Development Department.

Other features of the scheme:

Fallow plots of 10 to 20 acres belonging to farmers can be utilised for the scheme
Fallow land belonging to the State Government would also be utilised for the purpose
Micro-irrigation schemes would be set up separately for each plot of land
Only members of farmers’ cooperative societies and self-help groups (SHG) would be able to participate
Sale of the products farmed would also be conducted by the farmers’ cooperative societies

Bangla to observe Khadya Sathi Dibas today

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January 27 is celebrated as Khadya Sathi Dibas by the Bangla Government. On this day in 2016, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launched the Khadya Sathi Scheme, hence the commemoration.

Khadya Sathi Scheme is a flagship scheme of the Bangla Government. Nearly 90 per cent of the State’s population, get foodgrains at Rs 2 per kg under this scheme. There are special packages for the Jangalmahal region, Cyclone Aila-affected families, farmers of Singur, workers and non-workers of closed tea gardens, Hill areas, and the Toto tribe (staying in Totopara).

The scheme is implemented through a strong network of public distribution and food storage system.

 

Didi led an anti-CAA protest march in Hills today

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Today, Mamata Banerjee led a 4-km-long protest march in Darjeeling hills against the new citizenship law. The rally began at Bhanu Bhakta Bhavan near Mall in Darjeeling and concluded in the Chowkbazar area.. For the last few weeks, Didi has been leading protests across the State against this unconstitutional law.

Several protest marches have been held in Kolkata, led by Mamata Banerjee. Trinamool Chhatra Parishad and Trinamool Mahila Congress have held sit-in demonstrations as well. 

Bangla is the only State to boycott the meeting on NPR called by the Union Government. At the inauguration of the Uttarbanga Utsav too she had said that there will be no NPR and CAA in Bangla. She assured the people that she would guard them 365 days a year.

 

State Assembly to pass resolution against CAA on Jan 27

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The Bangla Government is going to bring a resolution against the amended Citizenship Act (CAA). The resolution will be taken up for discussion and passing during a special session of the State Assembly on January 27.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday had announced that her government would pass a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) soon.

Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Partha Chatterjee today said, “There will be a special session of the State Assembly on January 27 at 2 PM to discuss and a resolution against CAA.” He also called on other political parties to support the resolution.

It may be mentioned that on September 6, a resolution was adopted in the State Assembly against the NRC process in Assam. Since CAA was not passed in parliament at that time, CAA was not mentioned in that proposal.

Partha Chatterjee said that it is important to pass this resolution in the interest of democracy.

Bangla emerges at the top in vegetable production

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Bangla has emerged as the top State in vegetable production in 2018-19, the data presented at a recent horticultural meeting showed.

According to the State-wise horticulture production data released at a conference organised by the Agriculture Ministry last week, Bangla produced 29.55 million tonnes (mt) of vegetables last year against 27.70 mt in the year before.

Bangla accounted for 15.9 per cent of the country’s total vegetable production in 2018-19.

Applications for ration cards can now be submitted online

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The process of application for ration cards will go online in Bangla. The initiative taken up by the State Food Department has started from November 5, for the non-subsidy cards. Form 10, for non-subsidy cards, can be submitted online now. The full system will go online from December.

Additionally, the submission of application for ration cards will continue offline as well. This will be beneficial for people as they can skip long queues.

In order to include all the members of the family for availing subsidised ration, Form 3 will have to be submitted. Form 4 will have to be submitted for inclusion of a single member of the family. Form 5 will have to be submitted in case of change of name, address etc.

Rosogolla festival from Nov 14

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The Bangla Government will celebrate a four-day Rosogolla festival in Kolkata from November 14. On this day, in 2017, Bangla got the geographical indication (GI) tag for the sweet. Hence the plan to commemorate the day. 

This festival will be organised by the Food Processing Department. Last year, HIDCO had organised Rosogolla Festival at Misti Hub near Eco Park in New Town.

The department is now engaged in meeting sweetshop-owners all over Bangla and making them aware of making Rosogolla in the proper way, for which the GI tag was given. This will ensure the validity of the GI tag.

Source: Bartaman

 

 

State Govt giving job-oriented training to women

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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.

Ten-fold decrease in trafficking in Bangla

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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

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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.