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Bengal to set up three biotechnology hubs

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The West Bengal Government has taken up a project to set up three biotechnology hubs across the State, which is aimed to bring in more biotechnology innovations to the State, thereby improving the socio-economic life of the people.

The Biotechnology Department of the State has already taken up an elaborate scheme to not only tie up with other departments like Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Processing to increase the productivity and quality of various products, but to also provide germ-free food to the common people.

The three proposed biotechnology hubs will come in Bardhaman, Kalimpong and Medinipur districts; they will help in the co-ordination of various departments with the Biotechnology Department in a better way.

West Bengal has a rich biodiversity of crops, vegetables, fruits, flowers and other plant resources.

 

বাংলায় তিনটি বায়োটেকনোলজি হাব স্থাপনের পরিকল্পনা রাজ্যের

রাজ্য সরকার তিনটি বায়োটেকনোলজি হাব স্থাপনের পরিকল্পনা গ্রহণ করেছে। এর প্রধান উদ্দেশ্য হল রাজ্যের জৈবপ্রযুক্তি জনগণের আর্থ-সামাজিক জীবন উন্নত করা।

রাজ্যের বায়োটেকনোলজি বিভাগ ইতিমধ্যে একটি বিশদ প্রকল্প গ্রহণ করেছে। শুধুমাত্র কৃষি, মৎস্যচাষ, খাদ্য প্রক্রিয়াকরণ বিভাগকে একসাথে করার জন্যও নয় খাদ্যের গুনগত মান ও পরিমান বৃদ্ধি করতে এবং মানুষকে জীবাণু মুক্ত খাদ্য প্রদান করার জন্য এইসব প্রকল্প গ্রহণ করা হয়েছে।

তিনটি প্রস্তাবিত বায়োটেকনোলজি হাব তৈরি হওয়ার প্রস্তাব এসেছে। এগুলি তৈরি হবে বর্ধমান, কালিম্পং এবং মেদিনীপুরে। এর ফলে বায়োটেকনোলজির সঙ্গে বিভিন্ন বিভাগের সমন্বয় তৈরি হবে।

পশ্চিমবঙ্গ ফসল, সবজি, ফল, ফুল এবং অন্যান্য উদ্ভিদ সহ জীববৈচিত্র্য সমৃদ্ধ।

100 Days’ Work Scheme and Nirmal Bangla: Leading the way in India

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Rural Bengal has progressed tremendously under the Trinamool Congress Government over the past five years. Panchayats are the agents through which the Government’s development programmes for the rural populace are implemented.

Two programmes in which the State has performed very well and has received glowing commendations are the 100-Days Work Scheme and Nirmal Bangla.

The Panchayat and Rural Development Department has ensured more job security and creation of durable assets. The State Plan expenditure has increased over five times to Rs 38,214.14 crore during 2011-2016, as compared to that during 2006-11.

100-Days’ Work Scheme

There has been more than double the rise in the expenditure incurred under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generations Scheme (MGNREGS), also known as the 100-Days’ Work Scheme, during 2011-15, to Rs 18,742.72 crore, as compared to that during 2007-11. A total of 95.73 crore person-days were generated during 2011-16.

The State has achieved unique milestones under this scheme. West Bengal reached its peak during 2013-14 by generating 23.15 crore person-days, the highest in the country. In 2014-15, owing to the non-availability of adequate fund from the Government of India like in the previous year, only 16.77 crore person-days could be generated although in terms of expenditure the State retained its premier position with an expenditure of Rs 4,014.89 crore and a pending liability of Rs 1,823.12 crore.

Women’s participation in MGNREGS has increased to 41%, which is an all-time high in the State. The other major achievements lie in a series of innovative activities including mango orchards in Bankura and Purulia districts, support to Indira Awas Yojana housing, cowshed, goatery and poultry sheds under Individual Benefit Schemes, reclamation of land, leading to productivity enhancement, and convergence with different programmes of other departments.

Due to an outstanding convergence model, Lego Gram Panchayat in Bankura district received a national award for overall and effective performance in MGNREGS during 2012-13. Convergence in MGNREGS is now attempted in a big way and different departments are pumping in their resources to enhance productivity through combined initiatives.

Mission Nirmal Bangla

Mission Nirmal Bangla has been a revolutionary scheme of the West Bengal Government, aimed at making the State open defecation free (ODF), and it has had a great success. In 2014-15 alone, the State’s Individual Household Latrines (IHHL) count was 8.47 lakh, the highest in the country.

Among the top four districts in the country, in terms of making them ODF (counted on the basis of the construction of individual toilets), Nadia is at the number one spot and is immediately followed by Hooghly and Bardhaman. In record time, Nadia district has reached out to all the households and constructed more than 3.47 lakh toilets to ensure that everyone in the district has got access to sanitation.

Conclusion

Thus we can see that West Bengal has made tremendous progress in rural development. It is now one of the top performers in the country.

WB CM announces free school shoes for primary students

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After bicycles for school students, it’s shoes. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee played Santa Claus on Tuesday when she spotted some school students without shoes, on her way from Burdwan to Bolpur.

She immediately called education minister Partha Chatterjee and asked him to arrange for shoes to primary school students in a week. The state government has been distributing free books to students and recently announced that Madhyamik students would receive free test papers.

The state has 100 per cent mid-day meal coverage and has achieved 99% coverage of toilets in schools already.

School infrastructure has grown apace during the last few years. A lot of new schools (primary, upper primary), integrated schools (class 1 to 12) and model schools in backward blocks have been taken up.

Gaps in infrastructure have been filled by construction of Additional Class Rooms, Toilets, Separate Girls’ Toilets and Drinking Water facilities. Hostels especially for Girls students in Jangalmahal area have been built as a special initiative of the Government.

 

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প্রাথমিকের ছাত্রছাত্রীদের বিনামূল্যে জুতো দেবে রাজ্য সরকার

সাইকেলের পর এবার বিনামূল্যে ছাত্রছাত্রীদের জুতো দেবে রাজ্য সরকার। মঙ্গলবার পানাগড়ের ওপর দিয়ে যাওয়ার সময় মুখ্যমন্ত্রী লক্ষ্য করেন যে কিছু স্কুল পড়ুয়াদের পায়ে জুতো নেই।

সঙ্গে সঙ্গে তিনি শিক্ষামন্ত্রীকে ফোন করে নির্দেশ দেন এক সপ্তাহের মধ্যে প্রাথমিকের স্কুল পড়ুয়াদের জন্যও জুতোর ব্যবস্থা করার। ইতিমধ্যেই রাজ্য সরকার স্কুল পড়ুয়াদের জন্যও বিনামূল্যে বইয়ের ব্যবস্থা করেছে এবং কয়েকদিন আগেই ঘোষিত হয়েছে যে মাধ্যমিক ছাত্রছাত্রীদেরও এখন থেকে বিনামূল্যে টেস্টপেপার দেওয়া হবে।

প্রতিটি বিদ্যালয়ে মিড ডে মিলে ১০০ শতাংশ পরিষেবা দিতে সক্ষম হয়েছে রাজ্য সরকার এবং প্রতিটি বিদ্যালয়ে শৌচাগার তৈরির কাজেও ৯৯ শতাংশ সফল হয়েছে রাজ্য সরকার।

গত ৪ বছরে স্কুল পরিকাঠামো তৈরির কাজ জোর কদমে শুরু হয়েছে। পিছিয়ে পরা এলাকা গুলিতে প্রচুর প্রাথমিক, মাধ্যমিক, উচ্চমাধ্যমিক এবং মডেল স্কুল তৈরি হয়েছে।

জঙ্গলমহল এলাকায় মেয়েদের হস্টেল তৈরি রাজ্য সরকারের একটি মহান পদক্ষেপ।

 

West Bengal to get five new districts

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West Bengal Cabinet led by Mamata Banerjee on Friday cleared the deck for setting up five new districts – Kalimpong, Basirhat, Sunderbans, Jhargram and Burdwan industrial, as it was announced by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

By bifurcating Midnapore (west), Jhargram will be formed. From South 24-Parganas, Sunderbans is to be curved out, similarly Basirhat will be formed from North 24-Parganas. Burdwan will be bifurcated into Burdwan Rural and Burdwan Industrial. Kalimpong will be carved out of Darjeeling district.

Mamata Banerjee, after becoming chief minister, had promised about setting up new districts for better administrative control and so that public service can be delivered at the door steps of the people staying at remote areas.

The five new districts will increase the number of districts of Bengal to 25. Earlier on June 25, Alipuduar became the 20th district of the state after it was curved out of Jalpaiguri.

 

Second phase of Shaktigarh Industrial Hub comes up in Bardhaman

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Following the wave of development in West Bengal under the Trinamool Government, the West Bengal Small Scale Industrial Development Corporation has set up the 2nd phase of the Shaktigarh Industrial Hub at Bardhaman.

On the other hand, sticking to the promise by the Trinamool Congress to supply every household with pipelined purified drinking water, the State Panchayat and PHE Minister Subrata Mukherjee will inaugurate a drinking water supply project at Mandalgram Bazar in Memari-II block, also in Bardhaman.

Seven mouzas will be benefited by this project covering more than 2258.70 hectares, which is being supplied by three deep tubewells.

West Bengal Chief Minister Ms Mamata Banerjee who held a review meeting for the district at Mangalkote last week had distributed thousands of cycles under the Sabuj Sathi scheme to school students. Keeping with the pace of developmental works, the two new projects will bring a ray of light to the people of the district.

Chinese PSU Zhongtong plans Rs 250 Cr bus manufacturing facility in Bengal

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A Chinese PSU is coming up with a bus manufacturing unit in Bengal Aerotropolis airport city project at Andal in Burdwan.

The standing committee of the Cabinet on industry, infrastructure and employment cleared the unit on Friday. The matter would now be placed before the state Cabinet.

The unit would be set up by Zhongtong, a bus manufacturing company, on 15 acres of land in the industrial hub of the airport city. There will be an initial investment of Rs 250 crore and after five years this would rise to Rs 1500 crore.

The buses would be termed as Bengal Zhongtong Bus and the company plans to manufacture 1,500 buses per year. The unit plans to start functioning from next year and the first bus is likely to roll out from the factory by October 2016.

 

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Dignitaries praise WB Govt’s 100th administrative meeting

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The 100th administrative meeting of the West Bengal government was conducted in style today.

Galaxy of stars

A host of dignitaries — social thinkers, bankers, economists, health-care experts, vice-chancellors, parliamentary leaders of political parties, editors, poets and artists — were present on the occasion. They were joined by cabinet ministers and bureaucrats at the 100th administrative meeting.

Anuradha Lohia, Vice Chancellor of Presideny University, said, “We have received immense cooperation and help from State Govt. We hope we will continue to receive the support and cooperation in future.”

Amitava Sarkar, Director of IISWBM, said that this meeting was a lesson in administration and management. He was echoed by Ajoy Kr Ray, Director of IIEST, Shibpur and Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay from Indian Statistical Institute.

Sharing his personal experience of how he has seen development at grassroots, economist Abhirup Sarkar said, “The fact that the entire Secretariat travels to districts is historic.”

Terming the 100th administrative review meeting historic, poet Subodh Sarkar said that he will never forget this experience.

Trinamool MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay said this model of administrative review meetings was a lesson for not only the rest of India but the entire world.

Decentralised governance

The whole idea is to take stock of government’s delivery mechanism at the grassroots level and free-wheeling exchange of ideas among intelligentsia for greater good of the society in different spheres of life, said a senior state government official.

Such a decentralised approach for reaching out to the grassroots consistently is rare in India. Guided by Mamata Banerjee, government officials regularly go to the villages to monitor the performance of every department vis-a-vis the district-level demands. It helps solve problems faster and speeds up decision-making.

The presence of a large group of officials makes inter-departmental cooperation easier.

Reaching out to grassroots

WB CM Mamata Banerjee made it a routine to take the entire administration — right from the chief secretary and home secretary to departmental secretaries and police top brass — to the district where they meet the ground-level delivery system, including cops, regional transport officers, block level executives, agriculture officers and scientists. A lot of issues get resolved on the spot.

The delivery mechanism, has improved to such a level that some of the fiercest critics have clammed up. Several states now want to replicate the model for developing a better delivery mechanism.

WB CM inaugurates a mobile app for Burdwan district

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In a first initiative in Bengal, the Burdwan district administration launched ‘Smart Burdwan’, a portal and a mobile app. Everything you have wanted to know about the district will now be at your fingertips.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who visited Burdwan for her 100th administrative meeting, commemorated the occasion by launching this portal and app.

Service of the people

One will be able to lodge complaints against departments such as PWD as well as the municipalities, the panchayat samiti, block and sub-divisional offices regarding basic infrastructure – roads, drinking water, drainage and so on.

Also, all contact information of these departments or entities can now be accessed via this app. This app can also be used to access the contact numbers of police stations, fire and emergency services, electricity, cooking gas, and so on, thereby bringing all these under a single window.

In addition, information on educational courses, admission procedure, infrastructure, placement will also be available. All details about schemes such as Kanyashree, minority scholarships, vocational training, industrial training can be accessed through this app.

To prevent the distress sale of agricultural commodities, a voice interactive system has been developed by C-DAC, which is supposed to be launched on July 15.

Toilets for all: Bengal shows the way

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West Bengal Government is committed towards Open Defecation Free status for the State by October 2019. Within 2015-16, districts like Nadia, Uttar 24 Parganas, Purba Medinupur will be free from open defecation. Hoogly and Bardhaman will be free from open defecation by 2016-17.

Nadia, Bardhaman, Hoogly feature among the top four districts in the nation, in terms of toilets constructed in the last 2 years.

In the last 2 years, 11.92 lakh toilets have been constructed in West Bengal. In Nadia more than 2.42 lakh toilets have been constructed, in Bardhaman more than 1.5 lakh toilets have been constructed and in Hoogly more than 1.1 lakh toilets have been constructed. Nadia district has been shortlisted for the United Nations global award for public service. Currently toilets have been constructed for 95% of the houses in Nadia district.

In the last 2 years, 11.92 lakh toilets have been constructed in West Bengal.

The allocation has been proposed to be increased to Rs 8500 Crore in 2015-16 Budget, from the existing Rs 7460 Crore of 2014-15.

 

 

NIA probe finds no link between Saradha and Bardhaman blast

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After five months of investigations and having arrested 17 people including a Bangladeshi national, NIA has reached a conclusion that there is no link between Saradha scam money and the Bardhaman blast. It has also not found any proof of transportation of bombs from India to Bangladesh for alleged destabilization of the Sheikh Hasina government as was suspected earlier. Detailed interrogation of the alleged financier of Bardhaman blasts, there has been no link between Saradha money and blasts could be established by the NIA. They also denied involvement of any AITC member in the blasts as alleged by BJP.

The chargesheet to be filed by the NIA next month, is likely to also remain silent on the alleged transport of bombs from West Bengal to Bangladesh for there is little evidence to make such claims.

In November, the BJP President had created a furore by claiming in a public meeting in West Bengal that Saradha scam money had funded Bardhaman blasts. Three days later, the West Bengal government denied the charge in reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha question. AITC accused BJP of playing politics through false claims.

On 30 November, 2014 the BJP President had falsely claimed that Saradha chit fund’s money was used in this blast and CBI is investigating this matter.

Three days later, in reply to a Rajya Sabha question, Minister of State in Prime Minister’s Office Jitendra Singh replied, “So far investigation into Saradha chit fund scam does not show its money was routed to Bangladesh to fund terror activities.”