Targeting the Leftruled West Bengal government for misuse of NREGA funds, minister of state for rural development Sisir Kumar Adhikari has asked Cabinet minister C.P. Joshi to look into the matter.
Kolkata: The Bengal government is redrawing proposed power projects in the state due to difficulties in acquiring land.
The government had planned to set up four power plants in Birbhum, Purulia Murshidabad and Burdwan districts during the 11 th five-year plan period for an additional generation of 3,390 mw, but all the projects had to be stalled.
Markov chains have been used to model spatial changes in a variety of spheres. Changes in social situations, economic standards, natural resource availability, and even weather conditions have been explored and predicted using Markov Random Function (MRF) and Markov Random Chains (MRC).
Two years ago, over 1,500 farmers had volunteered to give up land for industry in Ausgram, Burdwan. Two days ago, officials who went to circulate a notice on cheque distribution there, were told to stay away.
Ishita Ayan Dutt / New Delhi/ Kolkata April 20, 2009, 0:01 IST
Bhushan Steel has informally approached the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) for an additional 1,000 acres in West Bengal, in the wake of negotiations with Sumitomo Metal Industries (SMI) for participation in its steel project.
While declining real product prices faced by primary commodity producers was one of the central causes of rising farm indebtedness, the gradual shrinkage of formal credit institutions in rural areas has simultaneously caused increasing dominance of private players in the credit market, rendering producers all the more vulnerable.
ASANSOL, April 3: The Trinamul Congress chief, Miss Mamata Banerjee, is arriving here tomorrow to address her party men at Jamuria ~ the den of illegal coal mining in Burdwan. Illegal coal has been a major issue in Jamuria and Raniganj, in almost every election.
