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Café Ekante to host special programmes to celebrate World Cup Football

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Café Ekante, the popular restaurant at Eco Park in New Town, will organise a host of programmes to celebrate World Cup football in a befitting manner. The programmes will be inaugurated today, when the World Cup begins in Russia.

The restaurant, named by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has been decorated with flags of the participating countries, lights and jerseys to create an apt ambience. There will be a mini goalpost and the guests who can score two goals will get discount on food.

The guests will have mouth-watering dishes that are specialties of the countries that are participating on that day. For example, on the day when England will face its opponent, there will be fish and chips. Similarly, there will be special dishes from Brazil, Argentina, France and Germany.

The guests will be given coupons where they can write the name of the team that they think will lift the World Cup. If their prediction comes true, they will get a 20 per cent discount on their bill, within one month from the day of the final.

A giant screen will be put up at Café Ekante during the semi-finals and final. Another giant screen will be put up at New Town Business Club during those days, to help the members enjoy football. The Business Club too, like the restaurant, will be decorated with jerseys, lights and photos of the heroes of the World Cup.

Café Ekante has become a very popular restaurant in a very short time for its quality and variety of food, and ambience. And Kolkata has always been the ‘Football Capital of India’. The passion for the game in the city is well-known, both in India and in many places outside. These two aspects combined is expected to make the festivities at Café Ekante a big hit.

Source: Millennium Post

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KMC to start hearse service

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Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to start a hearse service. It already has an ambulance service, which is quite popular.

The rate for the vehicles has been decided at Rs 150 for every two hours, which is much less than that of private services providers. After two hours, it will be charged at Rs 50 per hour.

The service will start with three vehicles. More will be added later. There will be a dedicated helpline number for accessing the service.

Source: Ei Samay

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Bengal Govt to train 2.5 lakh rural youths

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The Bengal Government is planning to impart skill training to 2.5 lakh unemployed rural youths in the state to enable them earn livelihood without migrating to cities, the Self-Help Group and Self-Employment Minister has said.

He said the training programme by the concerned department would be conducted with an integrated approach, combining with various State welfare schemes to skill the youths across 10,000 villages.

At the end of the training, the department will provide them assistance in the form of resources like building hatcheries and goat farms, greenhouses (where they can start horticulture or cultivation of herbs), etc.

The department has identified 10,000 villages from 1,030 gram panchayats across the State. Initially, 25 youths from each of these villages will be given training. So, a total of 2.5 lakh youths will be skilled.

Source: Business Standard

Bengal Govt introduces e-pension system for teachers, Panchayat employees

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The State Finance Department’s e-pension system, a revolutionary project which has also been nominated for the Skoch Award, has so far ensured initiation of pension of more than 6,000 retired employees, without delay of a single day after retirement.

Now even school teachers, employees of panchayat and civic bodies will be a part of this system too. With this initiative, an employee now receives his or her Pension Payment Order (PPO) through email, 15 days ahead of retirement.

With the introduction of the e-pension system, an employee just needs to scan all documents and upload it through a portal, the link of which is available on the website of the Finance Department . An application number gets generated as soon as the employee uploads the same. Using the application number, the employee can even track which particular stage his or her application is passing through.

The concerned officials take minimum time in clearing the files and at least 15 days before retirement, the employee gets an email with directions to go to the concerned treasury to provide details of the pension account where it will get deposited.

Source: Millennium Post

Bengal Govt employing GPS & GIS to create a comprehensive map of the Sundarbans

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The Bengal Government has started using GPS and GIS to create real-time interactive maps of the Sundarbans region. These technologies would help keep a ‘smart’ eye on the entire biosphere – forest cover, land use, illegal activities, etc.

Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based radio navigation system that provides geolocation and time information to a GPS receiver while geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyse, manage and present spatial or geographic data. GIS accuracy depends upon source data, and it is here that the accuracy of GPS comes into use.

The surveillance system implemented by the Forest Department uses GPS to capture the data and GIS tools (softwares) to analyse that data. The information being collected, which will be on a continuous basis, is helping the Government to keep track of detailed data on forest cover (number and types of trees, their exact locations, even information on trees cut down) and human habitation, nature of an area, locations of coves and bays, etc. Importantly too, all data would be updated on a real-time basis.

The Forest Department officials are using these data along with the existing ground maps to create a comprehensive database of the region. This method of data compilation would eventually be used to cover the whole of Bengal.

The Sundarbans forest in Bengal comprises of the Matla, Raidighi, Ramganga, Namkhana, Bakkhali and Bhagabatpur forest ranges. The mangrove cover comprises of 77,243 hectares and the wildlife sanctuary, 60,000 hectares. Eco-tourism is permitted on an area comprising of a little more than 27,000 hectares.

The data is also being made available for use by other departments. According to the Chief Conservator of Forests, Bengal, who is overseeing the whole project, the data would be a big help for departments like Tourism and Land and Land Reforms.

 

A new university coming up in Purba Medinipur district

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The Bengal Government is setting up a university in the district of Purba Medinipur, which would be the first university in the district.

The land for setting up the university has already been designated – a plot of 20 acres in Kapaseria mouza in Mahishadal block, part of Haldia subdivision, and located on national highway 41 (NH-41).

It would be named after Mahatma Gandhi and might be inaugurated by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on October 2, the birth anniversary of the ‘Father of the Nation’.

The setting up of the university would be a big boon to the students from the district as they would now be able to pursue post-graduate and doctoral studies nearer home. Students from the district have always fare very well in secondary and higher secondary exams and now, a university is being built for them.

Classes would begin from July, and would, for the time being, be held at Mahishadal Raj College.

Source: bengali.news18.com

Bengal Forest Dept bans use of plastic in parks

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The State Forest Department is going to impose strict restrictions on the usage of plastic material in the parks that are owned by the department. The Forest Minister announced this decision during a programme organised on the occasion of World Environment Day at Central Park in Salt Lake, Kolkata.

Visitors will not be allowed to enter parks with any plastic items or bags. The step has been taken to protect the environment of the parks. Besides throwing away packets inside parks, it is also often seen that people dump plastic bags and other items in the waterbodies inside the parks, which in turn cause damage to the animals and plants in the water.

The Forest Department would also urge the stalls situated near the parks not to sell items in plastic packets to the people.

Extensive awareness campaigns would also be carried out by the department against the use of plastic items, which disrupt the ecological balance. Through these campaigns, the ill-effects of plastic items would be explained.

The State Government is already doing a lot to reduce the harm caused by plastics. It has taken steps to reduce pollution caused by plastics and polythene bags by cleaning drains and water bodies at regular intervals.

Source: Millennium Post

Shola Hub at Bonkapasi village empowering women

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To give impetus to the famous shola article-makers of Bonkapasi village of Mongalkote block of the district of Purba Bardhaman, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has designated the place as a Shola Hub. This is a big step towards a more sustaining future for this traditional cottage industry.

Shola (or ‘sholapith’ in English) is the dried milky-white spongy matter which comprises the bark of the shola plant. It has traditionally been shaped into various objects like ornaments for goddesses (called ‘daaker kaaj’ in Bengali), necklaces and other ornaments, headgear for bridegrooms (‘topor’), etc.

The more than 2,818 artisans and 97 self-help groups (SHG) who comprise the shola workforce of Bonkapasi can now expect a much brighter future. Infrastructural improvements will follow soon, which would lead to better working conditions, better quality and quantity of products, and consequently, much more earnings.

Source: bengali.news18.com

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Bengal set to boost raw silk production

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With Bengal witnessing a nine-fold increase in the production of bivoltine silk in the past seven years, the State Government is targeting to extend the cultivation of raw silk on a new area of 1,620 acres during the 2018-19 fiscal.

During the 2017-18 fiscal, the area of plantation was increased by 1,733 acres and it resulted in an yield of 2,540 metric tonne (MT) of mulberry raw silk, 34.50 MT of tasar raw silk, 2.60 MT of eri raw silk and 185 kg of muga raw silk. Infrastructure, including 898 rearing houses, 147 vermi-compost sheds and 10 cocoon storage buildings were developed to extend support to silk farmers during 2017-18.

The State Agriculture Minister has said that the production targets for raw silk for 2018-19 are 2,575 MT mulberry, 46 MT tasar, 6 MT eri and 400 kg muga.

Of the 1,620 acres of land that will be brought under sericulture during 2018-19, 1,000 acres will be for mulberry, 400 acres for tasar, 70 acres for muga and 150 acres for eri.

Large areas of land in the districts including Paschim Medinipur, Jhargram, Purulia, Bankura and Birbhum (together comprising the region of Jangalmahal) were brought under tasar cultivation during 2017-18, from which 18,040 people benefitted.

It may be mentioned that the production of bivoltine silk was 7.16 MT during 2012-13, which has gone up to 36 MT during 2017-18.

The State Agriculture Department will be organising a symposium, in which officials of agriculture, horticulture and sericulture sections will be present. Representative of silk-farmers will also be attending the symposium.

Source: Millennium Post

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Bengal leads among States in decrease in crimes related to child labour

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Bengal is leading the country in eradicating the instances of child labour. Over the last three years, only in Bengal has there been an appreciative decrease in crimes related to child labour. This fact came out in a report presented by the concerned Union Minister in Parliament on March 27.

The State-wise list of the number of crimes concerned with child labour from 2014 to 2016 was presented, according to which, during this period, the law has been moved against only 42 people in Bengal.

Significantly too, during the above-mentioned period, there have been 1,131 operations in the State to rescue children illegally engaged in labour.