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Call to solve Siliguri pollution problems
Concerned about the rising pollution levels in Siliguri, a voluntary organisation on Tuesday sought measures to be taken against the same. Members of the Green Forum also demanded that authorities concerned
Concerned about the rising pollution levels in Siliguri, a voluntary organisation on Tuesday sought measures to be taken against the same. Members of the Green Forum also demanded that authorities concerned
PANSKURA: Expressing displeasure with the way emergency relief was distributed among the flood-affected people of both Midnapore East and West districts after the recent flash flood, Governor Mr Gopal Krishna Gandhi today asked the district administration of the two districts to ensure proper distribution of relief funds among the actual beneficiaries. He, however, said that the Centre and the state should co-ordinate with each other.
Availability of potable water under emergency situations like flood will soon be a reality. For researchers of the Geo-Environment Division of the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) have come up with a water filter for such purposes. The water filter, called NEERI-ZAR and designed by Mr Subhash Andey, Mr Prakash Kalker and Mr Madan Nanoti has already received the Nina Saxena Excellence in Technology Award at the IIT-Kharagpur this year.
TAMLUK, Aug. 12: Members of the National Coastal Protection and Development Advisory Committee (NCPDAC) have been roped in to study the alarming trends of sea invasion along the coast of Digha-Sankarpur in West Bengal and suggest preventive measures. After paying their visit to Sankarpur on 10 August, the committee members said that owing to the incomplete and faulty erection of the geo-tube wall along the coast of Sankarpur, it could not resist the tidal surge that hit the coast recently.
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The WTO meeting has failed after the USA reportedly got into a deadlock with India and China over import rules for farm products. Nevertheless, there seems to be a consensus among the participants that increased trade can help ensure the world's food security.
Statesman News Service Kolkata, July 30 : The state health department was directed to take steps within a week to stop the cooking of the patients' food in five big coal ovens in the SSKM hospital, according to an interim order of the Division Bench of Mr Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Mr Justice RN Banerjee of Calcutta High Court today. The interim order was passed in the wake of an earlier court order on 28 September last year to prevent any pollution to Victoria Memorial Hall.
BURDWAN: Coal production at an underground mine of Eastern Coalfields Limited was halted after water gushed into it last night. Citu members staged a demonstration in front of the pit today, alleging a lack of safety and security measures inside the mines.
Sanjib Chakraborty KOLKATA, July 28: It's been three months since the electric furnace for the crematorium ground of Madhyamgram municipality has been completed, but one detail has kept it from being inaugurated and put to use. An unclaimed body is required for the trial run of the furnace, located at Sajirhat near Madhyamgram in North 24-Parganas, but there has not been one body available for this purpose. Local residents as well as people from the outside area have been going to Kolkata, even to Basirhat, to cremate bodies.
KULPI, July 28: Although soil erosion is an acute problem in Malda and Murshidabad, the situation is not much different at Kulpi in South 24- Parganas. People living in the villages of Hara, Mukundapur, Harinarayanpur and Raytala are haunted by the fear of being deprived of shelter. Major parts of the territories have already been submerged under the river bed.
KOLKATA, July 27: Amidst widespread fears that food security in the state would come under threat owing to the LF government's industrialisation policy, a report prepared by the state land and land reforms department reveals that in fact only 9,000 acres of farm land in the state has been converted for setting up of industries over the last two years. Of far more concern, in the context of food security, is the fact that some 15 lakh acres of farm land remain uncultivated in the state every year mainly due to the financial constraints of marginal farmers and bargadars, as per the report.