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Equal respect to all languages by Bangla Govt

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The Trinamool Congress-led Bangla Government, as a policy, gives equal respect to all languages. The government has given several languages the status of official language to give them credibility and make people aware of them.

Last year, the West Bengal Official Language (Second Amendment) Bill, 2018 was passed to make Kamtapuri, Rajbongshi and Kurmali official State languages. Earlier, Kurukh had achieved the status through the West Bengal Official Language (Amendment) Bill, 2018.

The Ol-Chiki script is widely promoted by the government as the medium for writing the Santhali language. Santhali-speaking students can now write their State board secondary and higher secondary exams in the Ol-Chiki script.

Both Santhali and Urdu were introduced as subjects in the State Eligibility Test (SET) conducted by the WBCSC in 2015.

At the undergraduate level, Arabic is being taught in 42 colleges, Nepali in 10 colleges, Persian in three colleges (under the University of Calcutta), Tibetan in one college (Darjeeling Government College, under North Bengal University).

Hindi-medium general degree colleges have been set up in Banarhat (Jalpaiguri district), Asansol (Paschim Bardhaman) and Hatighisha (Darjeeling district).

At the postgraduate level, Arabic is being taught in 10 universities, Nepali at North Bengal University and Tamil at the University of Calcutta.

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Bangla Govt to help popularise rooftop urban farming

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The State Government agency, Newtown Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) will be forming an empanelled group to assist people, particularly senior citizens, in setting up rooftop urban farming. The group will charge for providing assistance at rates fixed by the NKDA.

These activities, KMDA officials feel, will keep the senior citizens socially engaged. In fact, they say that many people have shown interest in starting rooftop farming but could not move ahead because of a lack of expertise. Now the organisation is going to solve that problem.

It may be mentioned that at Swapno Bhor, the State’s first senior citizens’ park, organic farming of vegetables has recently been started in collaboration with an NGO, and senior citizens, who are members of the same, are overseeing it.

Source: Millennium Post

Bangla Govt to implement pilot project on battery energy storage system

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The Bengal Government, through the Power Department, is going to implement battery energy storage systems (BESS) on a pilot basis.

A battery energy storage system is a system which stores energy through the use of a battery technology with a purpose of using it in future.

The project has been structured into two phases, with a total duration of three years. The project would be implemented in association with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).

Phase I would constitute the research work leading to the development of guidelines in this regard. Phase II would facilitate integration of a BESS as a pilot installation at the distribution level and assist the power distribution utility in the implementation of the pilot project.

Source: Millennium Post

 

Bangla Govt planning to construct a skywalk at Kalighat

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The State Government is planning to construct a skywalk at Kalighat to decongest the temple area. The planning is on in full swing. The Kalighat skywalk, when complete, will facilitate the movement of devotees to the Kalighat Temple.

The project was announced by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee while inaugurating the Dakshineswar skywalk. A team of engineers from Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) recently visited the temple premises for the purpose.

The skywalk would be 450 metres long, and would connect Kalighat metro station on SP Mukherjee Road to the Kalighat Temple. There will be escalator facilities for climbing up to the skywalk.

The State Government will be allocating Rs 125 crore for the construction of the skywalk.

Thousands of devotees visit the temple on a daily basis. During Kali Puja and the Bengali New Year, the footfall increases threefold.

Source: Millennium Post

Bangla Govt to come up with ‘water budget’ for agriculture and industry

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To further augment the progress of the agriculture and industry sectors, the Bangla Government has decided to create a ‘water budget’, arrived at by calculating the block-wise requirements of water for various activities related to the two sectors.

Scientists of IIT Kharagpur will assist the Government. Technology, such as satellite imaging, will be used to ascertain the amount of groundwater, as well as underground water, at any place.

The water budget includes listing of the amount of water resources available. According to a senior State Government official, there is no central database where this information can be accessed. Hence, the need for such a database.

The official pointed out that 7,966 crore square metres of water is available annually in the State, whereas the demand has already crossed 9,100 crore square metres. Moreover, in 33 blocks, the level of underground water had fallen to dangerous levels.

According to the official, there are two ways to increase the pace of industrial growth through a water budget: firstly, where there is less water available, to encourage the setting up of industries that require less water, and secondly, to optimise the requirement of water through the introduction of technology and rationalisation.

Bangla Govt to project Kolkata as MICE hotspot

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The State Tourism Department has plans to project Kolkata as a hotspot for MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and events) tourism.

The department’s principal secretary made this comment at a conclave arranged by the India Convention Promotion Bureau (ICPB) at the state-of-the-art Biswa Bangla Convention Centre in New Town on August 30.

He also mentioned that Bangla in general has a big potential to grow MICE tourism and the State Government was making all efforts to make that a reality.

He also said that if the number of direct flights with some parts of world could be increased, then it would be a plus point for the tourism sector.

The State Government is looking into business tourism very seriously and is going all out to formulate strategies for making it a success.

Source: Millennium Post