While promising to release a sum of Rs 500 crore to keep the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) running in West Bengal at the earliest, the team from the Union rural development ministry that met the state panchayat minister today forced the state to frame a policy before disbursing further allotment to the districts under the scheme.
TAMLUK, 27 SEPT: With Alimudding Street busy with the upcoming Assembly polls, closer home the CPI-M has been accused of misappropriating government funds by supplying poor quality potatoes through the public distribution system across the state, including Midnapore East district.
This has been revealed after the state government announced the release of about 1 million tons of potato stored in
KOLKATA, 26 Sept: Encouraged by the Supreme Court order which instructed the Centre to distribute foodgrain free of cost to the poor instead of allowing it to rot in storehouses, civil rights groups are going to hold demonstrations outside the FCI godowns across the south Bengal districts, including Left-wing extremism-affected Midnapore West, Purulia and Bankura, in the next two days.
The Union minister of state for shipping, Mr Mukul Roy, today said the 2,000 acre land needed for the deeper draft port at Sagar Islands would be acquired by land reclamation. He was speaking at the meeting organised by the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industries here.
The current drought situation in the state has brought in a change in the political scenario of Lalgarh. With hunger looming large, the CPM has managed to regain lost ground with the help of government-sponsored schemes.
WEST Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee came down heavily on the Centre on Tuesday for not releasing funds to his government to implement the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in the state and said that the state had to suffer a lot for this.
The chief minister also described the alleged nexus between the Trinamool Congress and Maoists as a dangerous force and vowed to
Jhargram Forest Division has been surveyed for the availability and uses of ethno veterinary medicinal plants. A total of 96 plant species has been identified as ethno veterinary medicinal plants used in traditional animal health care. These 96 plants belong to 54 families and 89 genera occupying different habit groups and strata.
Paschim Medinipur district is the worst affected by the drought that has hit 11 districts of West Bengal, said Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee after a meeting with officials in Midnapore on Monday.
