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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
BOLPUR : The people of Birbhum's Bolpur and Ilambazar areas now have private healthcare right at their doorstep. Renowned cardiologist, Dr Devi Shetty, had set up a free check up clinic in Koira and Kopai villages of Bolpur sub-division and both have been given the name of
In order to ease the parking chaos in Kolkata, the state government needs to work on concrete plans to have more parking plazas in the city, state public works department minister, Mr Kshiti Goswami said in the Assembly today.
TAMLUK: Irrigation engineers have run into trouble while attempting to repair the breached river embankments in the flood-affected areas of Midnapore East district due to the non-availability of soil. The flood conditions at a few blocks in this district continue to remain grim because of this.
A tiger census in Sundarbans is in the offing. The census, which will take place in November comes against the backdrop of conflicting reports about the exact number of big cats in the world's largest mangrove forest. As per the last census conducted in 2005, there were 344 tigers in the Sunderbans, but a section of the media reported that the number was dwindling, the state forest minister, Mr Ananta Roy informed the state Assembly today.
The state government is giving priority to north Bengal districts in setting up more industrial estates, state micro and small scale enterprises and textiles minister Mr Manab Mukherjee informed the Assembly today. The minister was replying to a question raised by the Congress Legislature Party leader, Dr Manas Bhuinya, on the problems that are plaguing industrial estates in the state. Mr Mukherjee said his department is keen to develop industrial estates in north Bengal to generate more employment opportunities for the people there.
J&K land controversy unlikely to vanish soon
Nani Gopal Pal PURULIA- The Supreme Court has doled out an order to strip bare, the amusement parks and mini zoos in India, of their recognition, if they are not sanctioned by the Central Zoo, New Delhi. Captive animals can only be returned to the nearest divisional forest officer, or their donar organisations, if, they are recognized by the central zoo. An investigation revealed that most of the amusement parks and mini zoos, in and around Purulia, are not recognised by the Centre, New Delhi.
The Asansol Durgapur industrial hub is reeling under a severe crisis of disposal of solid waste these days. Though a solid waste management project has been planned under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, that still remains incomplete. The civic bodies having no other alternative are dumping garbage everywhere indiscriminately.
KOLKATA : The Kolkata Municipal Corporation's (KMC) dream to turn the city green seems to have gone sour. For the initial interest shown by the civic body in the project has waned as it is unable to fix a date to flag off this year's plantation drive. Previously, KMC on the occasion of World Environment Day, 5 June, would start their plantation drive under the name of Kolkata Sabujayan (Green Kolkata). "No specific date has yet been fixed for starting the plantation drive. However, some erratic campaigns are being undertaken,' a civic official, said.
Indiscriminate dumping of garbage within the town was forcibly prevented by the college lecturers, environmentalists and residents in a Durgapur locality this morning. Several garbage trucks were stranded as a result. Angry locals also assaulted the chairman of the respective borough committee when he allegedly tried to ignore the agitators. The civic body has decided to stop dumping waste in the disputed zone temporarily. The solid waste management plant of the civic body, however, is yet to be prepared although eight months have already passed.