Seven more medical colleges with Rs 1,750 cr outlay

Seven more medical colleges with Rs 1,750 cr outlay

Posted on November 1, 2019 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

The Bangla Government has decided to set up seven more medical colleges at a cost of Rs 1,750 cr.

Five of these would start functioning before the next Assembly election in 2021. These five are to be set up at Barasat, Arambagh, Tamluk, Uluberia and Jhargram. The other two would be located in the districts of Jalpaiguri and Paschim Bardhaman.

All five would have 100 seats each. The hospitals attached to each of these would have 500 beds. Hence there would be enough patients for medical students to have clinical experience.

The construction of the buildings in Barasat, Arambagh and Tamluk has already started.

Four medical colleges in the State have already received the permission of Medical Council of India this year to start functioning while another is expected to receive it soon.

State Govt to create forests across Bangla using Miyawaki Method

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

The State Panchayats & Rural Development Department has decided to create forests across Bangla using the Miyawaki Method, a Japanese method of tree planting that helps in building dense, native forests. The government would be using the 100 Days’ Work Scheme to implement it..

The Miyawaki Method involves planting dozens of native species in the same area, which becomes maintenance-free after the first three years. This method ensures plant growth is 10 times faster and the resulting plantation is 30 times denser than usual.

The first such forest would be coming up on 1,000 acres in the village of Shibganj, in Shyampur-I block in Uluberia subdivision in Howrah district. This forest would be named after the famous Swedish environment activist, Greta Thunberg.

Besides Howrah, the other districts where such afforestation has been planned are Purulia, Birbhum, Murshidabad, Bankura, Jhargram, Malda, Uttar Dinajpur, Purba Bardhaman and South 24 Parganas.

According to the plan for the pilot project, 3,280 saplings would be planted on 1,000 acres, which would be able to increase their sizes by 30 times in just seven months with the help of the Miyawaki Method. The plants to be planted are native species species like bahera, bael (wood apple), jamun (blackberry), mango, haritaki, babla, banyan, palash, shirish, tal, karamcha and mahua.

Preparations for the pilot project are on in full swing. A 10-day workshop was organised in Shibgunge where 36 officials from various districts participated. A private organisation conducted the workshop.

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.

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.

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.

Bangla CM releases handbook citing state’s achievements in eight years

Posted on October 18, 2019 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

Bangla Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee released a handbook on October 16, 2019. The book highlights the achievements of the State Government over the last eight years. The handbook has been named ‘Two Zero Eleven – Two Zero Nineteen’.

The book showcases how the economy of Bangla has improved, despite the slump in the national economy. From the 2.5 fold increase in GSDP to the 11 fold rise in capital expenditure, for physical infrastructure creation, or the 3.9 times decrease in revenue deficit – the handbook highlights Bangla’s performance in every sphere.

It may be mentioned, in the last eight years, the planned expenditure of Bangla has increased six fold, agriculture budget has increased by nine times, social sector spending has increased by four times, school education budget by nine times, higher education budget by six times.

Since assuming office in 2011, Mamata Banerjee has been working tirelessly to put Bangla on the course of development. The data presented in this handbook is testimony to the fact that the State is on the fast-track of development now.

Bangla Govt ensures food for all

Posted on October 16, 2019 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

Following are the major achievements with respect to food distribution through the public distribution system (PDS) by the Bangla Government during the rule of the Trinamool Congress, from 2011 to 2019

* Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee initiated the Khadya Sathi food security scheme to provide rice and wheat at Rs 2 per kg to 8.82 crore people, which is almost 90 per cent of the State’s population, including special packages for the people of Jangalmahal and the Hills, the Cyclone Aila-affected, the farmers of Singur, workers and non-workers of closed tea gardens, tribal people of Totopara in Alipurduar district, and destitute and homeless people.

* 50 lakh people get foodgrains at half the market price

* Allocation of foodgrains under PDS increased manifold during the last eight years

* Digital ration cards for all to make distribution hassle-free

Quantities allotted every month:

* People living in tea gardens: 35kg foodgrains at Rs 2 per kg
* People living in Cyclone Aila-affected blocks: 16kg foodgrains at Rs 2 per kg every month
* Farming families of Singur: 16kg foodgrains at Rs 2 per kg
* Over 8 lakh people in the Darjeeling Hills: 11kg foodgrains at Rs 2 per kg
* Over 35 lakh people in Jangalmahal: 11kg foodgrains at Rs 2 per kg
* Totos in Alipurduar: 11kg foodgrains free of cost
* Almost 6,000 malnourished children and their mothers: 5kg rice, 2.5kg fortified atta, 1kg masoor dal, 1kg Bengal gram
* For Durga Puja, Kali Puja, Diwali, Eid, Ramzan, Chhath Puja: Edible oil, Bengal gram, flour, sugar at subsidised rates

* System of payment of sale proceeds of paddy directly to the farmers’ bank accounts through NEFT

* In case of procurement of paddy through co-operative societies, direct payments of sale proceeds of paddy to the farmers within three days from the date of sale

* Major reforms in PDS, including the use of information technology (IT) in management of the PDS

* Construction of model fair price (FP) shops in closed tea gardens

* Storage capacity of grains distributed through PDS enhanced from 62,000 metric tonnes (MT) to 6 lakh MT

* Robust grievance redressal system through toll-free helplines – 18003455505 and 1967

Gandhi Bhavan in Kolkata to open as a full-fledged museum

Posted on October 2, 2019 | by aitc | Leave a Comment

Gandhi Bhavan, the house in Beleghata, Kolkata where Mahatma Gandhi stayed for a few weeks in 1947 in an effort to quell communal tensions, has now been developed into a full-fledged museum by the Bangla Government. It would be inaugurated today to commemorate his 150th birth anniversary.

When the Mahatma stayed there, it was known as Hyderi Manzil. It was renamed Gandhi Bhavan to honour him.

The Bangla Government under the administration of Mamata Banerjee took over the building in 2018 and has fully upgraded it in an effort to raise awareness among the present generation about Gandhiji and his association with Bangla.

The museum has several divisions including:

* Rare photographs capturing Gandhiji’s life during his 1947 visit to Bangla and stay at Hyderi Manzil

* Articles used by him during the over three-week period of his stay in 1947

* Photographs and articles spanning Gandhiji’s entire life

* Items used by him in the ashram he set up at Sodepur, 10km from Beleghata, to help inmates weave clothes using the charkha

* His correspondence (letters) with people in Noakhali, in present-day Bangladesh, during the period of the turmoil in Kolkata and Noakhali

* Newspaper clippings recording the turbulent phases in Bangla’s history

* Glass case with three swords surrendered to the Mahatma by the rioters

* Audio-visual presentation with voice-over

* Frescoes depicting non-violent movements of Gandhiji on the walls of the museum

* Walls of the central hall are adorned with paintings depicting the 1947 communal violence, made by students of Visva-Bharati University

Rs 5,522 cr to be invested in Bangla, over 1 lakh to get jobs

Posted on September 30, 2019 | by aitc | Leave a Comment

Over the next two years, an amount of Rs 5,522 crore would be invested in Bangla, leading to the creation of more than one lakh direct and indirect jobs.

This was stated by the State Finance Minister, Dr Amit Mitra, during an address at a session organised by the CII.

He said that despite demonetisation and the hurried implementation of the GST, which were two massive blunders of the BJP-led Central Government, Bangla has been doing comparatively better under the leadership of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee,.

While the GDP growth rate of the country has come down to as low as 5 per cent, the GSDP growth rate of Bangla has touched 12.58 per cent. Then, in Ease of Doing Business (EODB), Bangla stands at the second position among the states.

Didi to launch Jago Bangla festive edition today

Posted on September 28, 2019 | by aitc | Leave a Comment

Didi will launch the festival edition of Jago Bangla today. She will launch the magazine in the presence of several prominent personalities in the cultural field.

Like every year, this year’s edition too has the main article written by Mamata Banerjee. The other articles are authored by prominent Trinamool politicians and writers.

It will be available both online, on the Trinamool Congress website, as well as in print form.