Month: June 2015

West Bengal Government completes 1500 days in office

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The Maa, Mati, Manush Government led by Ms Mamata Banerjee completes 1500 days in office today.

In the last four years, Bengal has reclaimed her position as the best among states in several sectors and has become a model for others to emulate.

 

Governance for all

The government of West Bengal sincerely believes in inclusive governance. WB CM has been working relentlessly working for people of all castes, religions, genders, communities and creed.

When Trinamool Congress led government came to power in Bengal, it had inherited a huge debt amounting to almost Rs 2 lakh crore. Despite the debt burden, governance has not slowed down in the state.

Achievements of the government

Finance and Industry

MSME Sector

Business Made Easy in Bengal

Social Security

Tourism

Disaster Management

Urban Development

Labour

Youth Services

Environment Conservation

Housing for all

School Education

Higher Education

Women and Child Development

International Recognition

TMYC President Abishek Banerjee to address a rally at Nadia today

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Trinamool Youth Congress President and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee will hold a mass rally at Ranaghat Friends Club Ground at 2 PM in Nadia 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.

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.

KMC committee formed for Kolkata beautification

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Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee on Tuesday formed a committee that will determine `fair’ rates for the city’s beautification projects.

The committee headed by Atin Ghosh, a senior member, mayor-in-council, will help civic officials in fixing a `fair rate’ for contractors who will be awarded tenders for beautification works.He will be assisted by three other senior MMiCs Tarak Singh, Debasish Kumar and Debabrata Majumdar. After they reach a consensus on the `fair rate’ at which the payment will be made to the contractors, the proposal will be placed before the mayor for his approval.

The civic body has plans to beautify the city on the lines of similar projects being undertaken in other metropolitan cities. “For this, we needed to fix a fair rate for the contractors. I will give my stamp of approval to the rates to be fixed by the expert committee from time to time,“ the Mayor said.

WB Govt to launch Android app ‘Mati Katha’ for the benefit of farmers

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The West Bengal Government is providing tablet PCs to officials of the State Agricultural department so that they can pass on the weather report and other valuable information to the farmers in the districts, state Agriculture Minister Purnendu Bose said.

There are 194 agricultural farms in the State and about 145 of them have already implemented this. Keeping in mind, the latest whether condition, focus will be on farming different varieties of paddy such as Tulaipanji, Gobindabhog and Kalo Munia.

West Bengal Government is also introducing an Android application that will link farmers with agricultural experts to provide solutions to their crop cultivation issues. Special agri-tech workers will relay the problems faced by farmers via an app to specialists who will aid in trouble-shooting.

The app ‘Mati Katha‘ has been created with the help of a team of agricultural experts and the state information technology agency WEBEL. 127 workers, who were recruited by the state government as part of the Krishi Proyukti Sahayak (KPS) or agri-tech assistants, will act as the inter-phase between the farmers and the specialists in six districts.

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.

WB CM pays her last respects to Sister Nirmala

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West Bengal Chief Minister Ms Mamata Banerjee paid her last respects to Sister Nirmala at St John’s Church in Kolkata.

Sister Nirmala headed the Missionaries of Charity after Mother Teresa passed away. She passed away at the age of 81 last night.

At around 12:30 PM, WB CM visited the St John’s Church. She said that she had good relations with Missionaries of Charity and that she had worked with Mother Teresa during 1992 riots.

Terming the death of Sister Nirmala as a personal loss the West Bengal Chief Minister said “Sister Nirmala was a very soft-spoken person and had worked for the poor and for world peace.” “She was very motherly. I had great respect for her,” the Chief Minister added.

The contribution of Missionaries of Charity to Kolkata and Bengal was immense, she said.

 

Earlier this morning, she had tweeted:

88 Krishak Bazars in Bengal to be fully operational before August 2015

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Eighty eight Krishak Bazars (Farmer’s Markets) across the State will be fully operational before August 2015. State Agricultural Marketing Minister Arup Roy said that these bazars have already started the process of buying paddy from the farmers. After the distribution of stalls at these markets, fertilizers, seeds and agricultural machinery will also be available.

In the district of Hooghly, 10 such Bazars have been set up in places like Singur, Dhaniakhali, Purshura, Jangipara and Balagarh. It has been decided that four to five stalls in each Bazar will be kept for the Agriculture department to distribute fertilizers, seeds and other agricultural products.

Each of the 88 Krishak Bazars will have a cold storage. The Government is also providing an encouragement allowance of Rs 15 to the paddy farmers in excess of the price of paddy.

The Government is also focusing upon schemes such as Amar Fasal Amar Gari, Amar Fasal Amar Gola and Amar Fasal Amar Chatal to be implemented in an all round basis.

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.”

More than one lakh activists to attend 21 July rally from North 24 Prgs: Abhishek Banerjee

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Trinamool Youth Congress and AITC MP Abhishek Banerjee addressed a huge mass meeting at the Basirhat College Ground in North 24 Parganas on Monday. The meeting is a part of a series of curtain raiser for the main event, 21 July Saheed Divas. Abhishek will hold more than 12 such mass meetings at different points of the State.

More than one lakh people from the district of North 24 Parganas will participate on the Saheed Divas on July 21, 2015, he said.

The AITC Youth Congress President, while comparing the past Left Government with the present Trinamool Congress Government said that the years prior to 2011 were marked with incidents of violence and terror while post 2011, Bengal has seen projects like Kanyashree and Yuvashree. He said that in terms of developmental works, the present Trinamool Government is way ahead of the past Left Government or even the present Government at the Centre.

India’s first fish hospital to come up in Kolkata

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A fish hospital — the first of its kind in the country — will become operational in Kolkata in two-three months. The hospital, with facilities to diagnose and treat ailments in fish commercially bred in the state, will help farmers increase their produce.

The building has already been constructed and electrical work is in progress. The aim of the hospital will be to find out what ailments the fish bred in the state suffer from and help farmers increase the yield. The hospital is coming up at Panchasayar’s Chakgaria in Kolkata.

The facility comprises 50 glass aquariums and 25 circular water tanks to house the fish. The hospital will first diagnose and treat fish that are bred by farmers. At a later stage, efforts may be made to find out ailments that wild fish, caught along Bengal’s coast, suffer from.

Farmers can approach the hospital whenever they suspect a problem with their fish. They can report abnormalities like change in colour or size. They can even bring in samples for diagnosis and treatment.