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State Govt’s special package for Kali Puja & Chhat

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Like last year, this year too the State Food and Supplies Department has introduced a special ration package on the occasion of Kali Puja and Chhat. Included in the list of products are edible oil, atta and sugar.

The package is available to people enlisted in the Antyodaya Anna Yojana and to those belonging to special categories, both under the National Food Security Act.

About 3 crore people will get the benefits. The same package was made available for Durga Puja too, which ran from October 9 to 23.

For the occasion of Kali Puja and Chhat, the package is being provided from October 30 to November 13.

A litre of mustard oil is available for Rs 101 and 500ml for Rs 52, while a litre of rice bran oil is available for 94 and 500ml for Rs 48.50. Five hundred gram each of sugar and atta is also available to the people, which could be bought twice during the 15-day period.

WB Govt announces loan for workers of closed tea gardens

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The state government on Tuesday announced soft loan to be provided to the planters of closed and sick tea gardens of North Bengal from the Rs 100 crore special corpus fund for tea industry.

The decision came after state labour minister Malay Ghatak held few rounds of meetings with the tea planters, trade union leaders and the officials of Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar districts here at Uttar Kanya.

State food minister Jyotipriya Mullick also attended the meeting. Later, speaking to reporters, Mr Ghatak said, “The loan at low interest rate would be provided to the owners of sick and closed tea gardens to be used for the welfare of workers.”

The minister said the condition to get the loan is that the planters should use the loan only to carry out workers’ welfare activities.

He also informed that the state government is working to extend the National Food Security Act to the tea gardens by January 1, 2016. Under the act, the beneficiaries would get subsidized ration. The act was implemented in the state from September.