Month: October 2018

Café Ekante, Newtown’s pride restaurant will offer special buffet menu on four days from Soshthi to Nabami. On Soshthi, Aampora Shorbat will be the welcome drink. This will be followed by masala beguni, kumro phuler bora, murgir gandharaj tikka and macher sorshe tikka as starters.

The main course includes Jhoori aloo bhaja, chanar dalna, doi potol, muh mohan, thakur barir pathar mangso, home-style chicken curry, parsey macher jhol, sada bhat and basanti pulao, radhaballavi, aloo kabli chat, papad and amsatto khejurer chatni. This will be followed by dessert where misti doi, rosogolla, gajorer halwa and misti paan will be served.

On Saptami, the welcome drink will be jal jeera. In the main course, there will be ekante kosha mangsho and pabda macher jhal among others. There will be langcha and dudhi ka halwa along with misti doi as dessert.

On Ashtami, in the main course, there will be goalandrer murgi, mutton dakbunglow and chingrir malai curry. There will be hari moti pulao, chalta chutney, bori diye lal shaak bhaja and so on.
On Nabami, one can have mutton roganjosh, sorsey mach, kachalonka murgi in the main dish. Besides mishti doi, there will be pantua, halwa and misti pan in the dessert.

Expert chefs in Café Ekante have prepared the menu. The restaurant has been thoroughly renovated and the capacity has been increased to 62 seats. The ambience is bound to attract guests. On the island, a model of Maa Durga, made of glass fibre, will be installed and the whole area will be decorated with soothing lights.

Do you want to enjoy Prawn Tempura or Sushi? The Japanese restaurant at Eco Park is all set to welcome you with mouth-watering Japanese and Chinese cuisines during the Puja days.

Eco Park has a zone housing a Japanese forest, a pagoda, an area for wish fulfilment and a top class restaurant. Japanese experts had visited Eco Park and expressed their satisfaction over the construction of the zone.

The Japanese restaurant has become quite popular among the foodies in Kolkata and its neighbourhood. The quality of food is superb and on weekends it is difficult to get a seat.

Housing and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HIDCO) and Newtown Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) have decorated Biswa Bangla Sarani with bright lights. A special ‘dhaak’ session will be held opposite Mother Wax Museum from Soshthi to Dashami to welcome those who visit the city from far flung districts and other states or countries.

Source: Millennium Post

The state government has set up a six-member committee headed by the Chief Secretary, to look into environment issues.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, while inaugurating a community Durga Puja in Behala, expressed her deep concern over the key issues related to the environment. Referring to the annual report on environment 2017, published by the United Nations, she said that awareness is required to preserve nature.

The CM said it is a tragedy that people don’t keep the areas where they live clean. “We have installed compactors throughout the state but despite that people are throwing garbage into the waterbodies. This is wrong,” she said.

Earlier, she had raised the slogan “Save Green, Stay Clean”.

The State Government has decided to open a control room at Nabanna during Durga Puja. The cyclone ‘Titli’ is gaining strength and a low pressure has developed over Bay of Bengal. There might be spells of rain during the festive days, hence this decision.

The control room will be open from Panchami (October 14) till Lokkhi Pujo (October 24). 24 hour monitoring will be done by the control room, which will comprise senior officials.

A helpline number will also be active during festive days. For any assistance, people can call 107

The state Agriculture department will give a compensation of Rs 210 crore to farmers who had incurred loss due to hailstorm in 2018. Following a direction of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the state Agriculture department has set October 12 as the deadline to complete distribution of cheques among the farmers. There are more than 3.25 lakh farmers who will be receiving compensation.

Farmers in both North and South Bengal were affected. Farmers from 10 districts including Murshidabad, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, South Dinajpur, Malda, Birbhum, Nadia, North 24-Parganas and West Midnapore had incurred heavy loss due to the hailstorm. The distribution of cheques has started and to ensure that farmers get the money without any delay, the work is going on in full swing.

It may be mentioned, in the past seven years, the Chief Minister has taken several steps for the benefit of farmers. Most importantly, the Mamata Banerjee government has waived land tax to provide impetus to the agriculture sector. At the same time, the state Agriculture department has taken steps to help farmers adopt new methods and techniques, which has ensured an increase in their income. The average annual income of farmers has gone up to Rs 2.91 lakh.

E-commerce giant Flipkart will set up a logistics hub at Haringhata Industrial Park in Nadia that will generate 18,310 direct job opportunities.

The in-principal approval to allot land to Instakart Private Limited, which is a subsidiary of Flipkart, has been given in Wednesday’s board meeting of the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC).

Dr Amit Mitra, the state Industry minister, said: “This is good news for the people of Bengal ahead of Durga Puja, as setting up of the logistics hub will generate 18,370 direct jobs.”

The project will be set up on 100 acres of land in the 358-acre Haringhata Industrial Park, which will be the biggest in the country. There will be an investment of Rs 991 crore to set up the logistics hub.

Dr Mitra said: “Flipkart will be an anchor investor in Haringhata Industrial Park. With setting up its logistics hub, more industries will be coming up in the remaining part of the industrial park.”

The state Cabinet on Tuesday has given its approval to allot land at Haldia to The Chatterjee Group, to set up a Purified Terapthalic Acid (PTA) manufacturing plant.

Suvendu Adhikari, chairman of the Haldia Development Authority, said in Nabanna after the cabinet meeting on Tuesday that “The Standing Committee of the Cabinet on Industry, Infrastructure and Employment, headed by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has given its approval to allot land for setting up of the unit at Haldia.”

He further said that the Haldia Development Authority had made the proposal through the state Urban Development and Municipal Affairs department and with its approval, 98.573 acres of land will be given to the group. The land will be given from the state’s land bank and it will be another major unit that will come up at Haldia.

There will be an investment of Rs 4,500 crore and it will generate 1,000 job opportunities for both skilled and unskilled labourers. There will be generation of around 1,000 job opportunities and it is expected to go up later.

It may be mentioned that Haldia has witnessed huge investments in the past few years. The investment of Rs 4,500 crore to set up the PTA manufacturing plant will further boost the economy of the area and many youths will get jobs. The state government has also organised business meets at Haldia and it has helped in attracting investments to the industrial area.

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will conduct regular food drives during Durga Puja, with a special emphasis on keeping the quality of packaged drinking water and soft drinks in check.

“For the last few years, we have been conducting drives during Puja to ensure that quality of food is not compromised with. But there are chances of tampering with packaged water and soft drinks. So, I have instructed my team of food inspectors to give special focus on the same,” Member, Mayor-in-Council (Health) said.

He added that food safety officers have been directed to take strong action against the businessmen who will be found selling inferior quality drinks. The drive started a day after Mahalaya, will continue on a regular basis till Kali Puja.

Mayor-in-Council (Health) led drives at Borough 6 on October 9, and in Kankurgachi area on October 10. Drives will be conducted in Park Circus and Gariahat area on October 11. There will be random drives in food stalls adjacent to puja pandals in South Kolkata on October 13 and in North Kolkata on October 14.

Seven new buses have been added to the fleet strength of the Kolkata-north Bengal route. The new service was inaugurated on October 4 at the Islampur bus depot in Uttar Dinajpur district.

Out of the seven, three are air-conditioned, which will operate between Kolkata and Siliguri. A set of two non-air-conditioned buses will each be running between Kolkata and Raiganj and Kolkata and Balurghat.

In recent times, many buses have been introduced in the north Bengal route, including through a service connecting Kolkata to the district headquarters.

Source: Millennium Post

The state Transport department has introduced 35 robust and safe vessels before Durga Puja for better transport facilities in inland waterways.

It may be mentioned that the state Transport department has already taken a series of steps to ensure that people do not face any inconvenience while availing the transport services in inland waters. At the same time, steps have also been taken to ensure security and safety of commuters.

The state government had introduced the Jalodhara scheme under which safe and robust vessels are getting introduced by which people can cross river Hooghly at different transit points without any risk.
Around 35 such vessels will be introduced ahead of Durga Puja. Around 15 of such 35 vessels are of capacity to carry 100 passengers at a time. Around 20 of such 35 vessels are under the Jalodhara project.

The state Transport department also ensured repairing of jetties following a Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). Jalosathis have also been appointed at the jetties to maintain the SOP.