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Abhishek Banerjee to address a rally at Baharampur today

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Trinamool Youth Congress President and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee will hold a mass rally at Textile College More, Baharampur Town (Murshidabad district) at 2 PM today.

The meeting is a part of his district visits ahead of the 21 July Saheed Divas rally. He had earlier started the district campaign with a mass meeting at Basirhat in North 24 Parganas and Ranaghat in Nadia.

The Youth Congress President will hold similar rallies at Bardhaman, Purulia, Kushmandi, Panshkura, Jainagar, Howrah and Kolkata.

Mamata Banerjee will shatter the dreams of CPM, Cong, BJP: Abhishek Banerjee

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Trinamool Congress MP and TMYC National President, Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday addressed a rally at Ranaghat, Nadia. He said those who are trying to come to power in Bengal through riots will fail.

“Mamata Banerjee will shatter the dreams of BJP, CPI (M) and Congress. She cannot be bowed down by propaganda. The people are with her,” he added.

“I am not afraid of lawsuits against me. If needed, I may go to jail too,” Abhishek added.

Abhishek also asked TMC workers who are involved with syndicates supplying construction materials to leave the party as “there is no place for them in the Trinamool Congress.”

He is currently touring districts as a run up to the Shahid Divas rally to be held at Dharmatala on 21 July. The Youth Congress President will hold another rally at Baharampur on June 26. He will be holding similar rallies at Bardhaman, Purulia, Kushmandi, Panshkura, Jainagar, Howrah and Kolkata.

World-class Public Health Institute coming up in Bengal

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The West Bengal Government has decided to constitute a global advisory group for developing an institute of public health at Nadia’s Kalyani. The group will comprise Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and other educationists who are experts in public health. The institute will be developed as a world-class global centre of education and research in public health.

“An Institute of Public Health is being set up at Kalyani, Nadia. The Institute will develop as a global centre to address key areas of education, research and policy formulations in public health and related subjects,” Mamata Banerjee posted on facebook on Wednesday.

Mamata added, “To make the Institute a world-class centre, we have decided to constitute a Global Advisory Group with eminent persons. They are Prof. Dr. Amartya Sen, Prof Abhijit Binayak Banerjee of MIT, Prof. Sir Michael Marmot, Director, University College of London Institute of Health Equity, Prof. Lincoln Chenn, Chairman, China Medical Board in US, Harvard School of Public Health, Massachusetts, Prof. Grant Miller, Director, Stanford Centre for International Development, Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President Public Health Foundation of India and Ms. K. Sujatha Rao, Ex Union Health Secretary.”

The state is developing Kalyani as a theme-based township. The town already has several plots earmarked for residential and commercial purposes. The CM has named the theme township ‘Samriddhi’

The government recently took the decision to set up the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Kalyani. The government has allotted 180 acres of land, worth Rs 57 crore, to set up the hospital.

Besides this, the state will develop Kalyani as an analytical city covering over 50 acres of land. Bengal expects to draw Rs 3000 crore of investment from the project.

Sanitation Campaign – Bengal leads among States

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In a video conference held earlier today with all the States, Government of India announced that West Bengal was the best among all in the sanitation campaign.

In a Facebook post, West Bengal Chief Minister Ms Mamata Banerjee wrote: “We had constructed 8.47 lakh toilets last year, the highest in the country. This year, till now, we have done 3.22 lakh, which again is the highest.”

She also said, “Our expenditure in 100-days work in 2014-15 was Rs 4009.76 Cr, highest in the country. We created 16.7 Cr person days, 2nd highest in India.”

We are committed to do our best for Bengal. My best wishes to everyone, WB CM said.

Bengal’s ‘Sabar Shouchagar’ project receives UN award for innovative public services

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The project in West Bengal’s Nadia district for improving heath by providing sanitary toilets and promoting their use has won a first place UN award for innovative public services.

Announcing the award to the Sabar Shouchagar — “Toilets for All” — project, the UN department administering the awards said on Monday that it “is a unique model developed to generate awareness, improve access to sanitary toilets, and bring substantial health improvement through improved sanitation”.

The project increased awareness and brought about behavioural changes leading to more use of the constructed toilets, it added.

The award from the Division for Public Administration and Development Management of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) is to be given in Medellin, Colombia, on Thursday at a UN Public Service Forum.

“The awards highlight many innovations that help to provide better services to citizens everywhere in the world and improve people’s lives,” said Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA).

“It provides an international platform to showcase some of the best examples of effective public governance.”

Accident insurance scheme for self-help groups started in Bengal

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An accident insurance scheme for self-help groups (SHGs) has been started in West Bengal. The implementation of the scheme has begun with the district of Purulia. It is to be extended to the district of Nadia, and in around a month, to the rest of the State. An additional 2% subsidy on interest against loans taken by the SHGs has also been announced.

About the scheme

The accident insurance scheme for the SHGs, administered by West Bengal Swarojgar Corporation Limited, has been made applicable to all members aged 18 to 60 years. The compensation for accident-related deaths has been settled at Rs 1 lakh. This compensation amount is also applicable to those who fall in the categories of total permanent disability, partial permanent disability and temporary total disability, as per an announcement by the Department of Self-Help Group & Self-Employment.

Rs 40,000 has been earmarked for accident-linked treatment and surgery. For conducting the last rites of accident victims, a maximum of Rs 2,500 would be given. To compensate a person for the wage loss suffered as a result of an accident, Rs 100 per day would be paid for a maximum period of 30 days.

Loans taken by the SHGs from banks carry an interest of 11%. Of this 11%, till now, 7% used to be paid by the State Government in the form of subsidy. Therefore, SHGs had to pay 4% of the interest. Now, the State has decided to pay an additional 2% of the interest, to lower the burden on the SHGs. Hence, from now on, the SHGs would have to pay only 2% of the interest.

As of now, this new subsidy scheme would benefit those SHGs that had applied for loans from April 2014 onwards. However, efforts are on to extend this subsidy to those groups too that have been paying their interests from earlier.

According to the State Government, more than 50 lakh members from the almost 5 lakh SHGs would be benefited by all the above-mentioned measures.

 

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Derek O’Brien makes a Special Mention on the achievements of West Bengal’s sanitation programme | Full Transcript

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Nadia district of West Bengal has become the first in India to have modern toilets in every household. This remarkable feat in sanitation, called ‘SobarSouchagar’or ‘Toilets For All’,has made Nadia a ‘NirmalZilla’. International recognition has also come.

The project has been shortlisted for the prestigious UN Public Services Award, 2015. Loughborough University, UK has selected the project as an inspiring model for eliminating open defecation, and it is to be presented at the WEDC International Conference in July.

Open defecation is a major problem in India. The State of West Bengal has taken a commendable lead in tackling this issue. To change this social behaviour, the administration started a practice of oath-taking by children in schools that they will ensure total sanitation in their houses. This has proved to be the biggest game-changer as children went home and forced their parents also to use toilets. Besides, religious leadershave also done their part in spreading the message of safe sanitary habits during gatherings.

Other districts, like Hooghly, North 24-Parganas and Bardhaman, are also well on their way to achieving a 100% open defecation-free status. Funds from Central schemes like National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan and National Rural Livelihood Mission are being used for the purpose.This kind of district-level sanitation programme is the need of the hour; the State of West Bengal has shown the way to success, and now it’s for the others to implement similar schemes to remove the scourge of open defecation.

Nadia shows the way for Clean India: WB CM

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While the Centre’s much-publicised Swachh Bharat Abhiyan hasn’t yet hit top gear across the country, a district in Bengal has stolen a silent march in becoming the country’s first to be declared open defecation-free.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today made a formal announcement of Nadia becoming the first Indian district to earn Open Defecation Free (ODF) status. Hooghly and Bardhaman are placed on second and third rank respectively.

Nirmal Bangla Divas

One lakh school students today took the Nirmal Bangla Pledge (see video here) along with the CM at Krishnanagar, Nadia. Representatives from UNICEF and World Bank were present on the occasion.

To celebrate the success of the efforts in Nadia, 30 April will be observed as Nirmal Bangla Divas across the state every year, announced CM.

WB CM thanked people from all sections of the society for making Nadia the first open-defecation free district in India. “The district of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Dwijendra Lal Roy has again led the way in social awakening,” she said.

Nirmal Bangla Mission

As part of the Nirmal Bangla (Clean Bengal) Mission, as many as 3.47 lakh toilets were set up across Nadia. These were constructed not just in the interiors of Nadia, but also in the urban centres and townships. By March 2015, all households in the district had access to toilets.

It is estimated that 2.5 billion people in the world do not have access to proper sanitation and nearly half of them still defecate in the open.

Nadia is a model district for India: WB CM at Nabadwip

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West Bengal Chief Minister Ms Mamata Banerjee today addressed a public meeting at Nabadwip Chatir Math in Nadia district where she inaugurated numerous developmental projects for the district.

WB CM hailed the district administration for successfully making Nadia the No. 1 district in Nirmal Bharat Mission. She said Nadia could become a national model. “My compliments and best wishes to Nadia district administration for being No. 1 in India. Keep up the good work,” CM said.

Tomorrow, the State Government will celebrate Nirmal Bangla Divas; Nadia has emerged as the first district in India to be declared open-defecation free.

She also declared Nabadwip as a Heritage Town. “I have come here to Nabadwip with the message of peace. We have spread Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s message to the world,” she said.

The Chief Minister announced that her government had increased the grant under Kanyashree scheme and will provide skill training to 10 lakh students in the next two years.

“We have made provisions for 40 lakh cycles to be distributed to poor students of all castes, creed, religion and communities,” WB CM announced. A Sanskrit College named after Chaitanya Mahaprabhu will come up in Nabadwip, she said while announcing 8 new medical colleges for the State.

The Chief Minister earlier held a meeting with the administrative officials of the district to take stock of the progress of various developmental works.

Nadia district wins international acclaim for “Sabar Souchagar” project

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West Bengal Chief Minister Ms Mamata Banerjee congratulates the people of Nadia for their innovative initiative “Sabar Souchagar” under “Mission Nirmal Bangla” which has been has shortlisted for the prestigious international UN Public Services Award, 2015.

The project has also been selected by Loughborough University, United Kingdom as “An Inspiring District Level Model for eliminating open defecation in India”. This will be presented at the 38th WEDC International Conference in London in July, 2015.

Nadia district has been in talks recently due its initiative for toilets for all i.e. “Sabar Souchagar” to make the district free from open defecation.

West Bengal Chief Minsiter Mamata Banerjee has given her best wishes to Team Nadia for this outstanding achievement.

 

The Chief Minister shared the news on social media: