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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
To augment the supply of drinking water to the city, particularly the southern fringes of Kolkata, Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) will be setting up a water treatment plant along with a 2.5 million gallon capacity underground reservoir cum pumping station at Garden Reach. The decision was taken at a meeting of the works and tender committee held in the conference room of Unnayan Bhavan, recently. The project will be constructed on turn key basis. The committee has advised the wing resposible for setting up the pumping station to invite fresh tenders.
For the second consecutive day today and much to the embarrassment of the CPI-M leadership, Raj Bhavan, plunged into darkness for an hour this evening. Power in the palatial building was also switched off for an hour in the afternoon. A Raj Bhavan spokesperson pointed out that a decision is yet to be arrived at as to when the power situation at Raj Bhavan will return to normalcy.
It has only been two months since the inauguration of the Jiban Jyoti Scheme, prepared for the benefit of the distressed Lodha-Sabars of Belpahari, but it has already flopped.
Nandigram will go for panchayat polls on 11 May in what could be a referendum on the chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee's industrialisation policy. Keeping this in mind the CPI-M has chalked out its election machinery on the Keshpur and Garbeta model of 2001 to reign in its political adversaries in this rural fringe.
BARRACKPORE (North 24-Parganas), May 6: Residents of Harishpur village have been forced to earn their livelihood by begging as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) failed to improve their lives. Harishpur, which is under Mamudpur gram panchayat near Naihati is one of the most backward villages in North 24-Parganas. The village, which is largely inhabited by Adivasis (Tribals), has 300 families living there. Developmental activities have not been seen for these people who are struggling for their existence.
CHINSURAH: Support the "police atrocities' on farmers who have been opposing the alleged "forceful' acquisition of farmland in Singur or face consequences. This seems to be the message the CPI-M wants to convey, even to its own supporters in Singur. CPI-M cadres allegedly destroyed field crops of two active members of DYFI ~ the CPI-M's youth wing ~ who had opposed the atrocities.
In order to improve the water supply and distribution system to the city, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will be constructing an alternate water supply line soon. This would act as one of the main water supply line for the city, replacing a 60-inch water supply line from Palta to Tallah. Rs 305 crore has already been sanctioned in this regard by the Centre.
The land-losers who had sacrificed their cultivation quarters to help installation of DVC's Mejia Thermal Power Station in Bankura blocked the coal consignments and entrance of the power utility causing severe inconvenience to its expansion work for 12 hours today. They demanded absorption against land acquisition. The stir was withdrawn only after the Bankura district administration assured one to one conciliation meeting on 27 May.
Mr Goutam Chakraborty, who was elected as the sabhadhipati of Malda Zilla Parishad with the support of the Trinamul Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), finally completed his five-year tenure despite protests by a majority of the Opposition. He had to face problems to run the board, failing to prove majority for passing its annual budgets, on more than one occasion. There was also a misunderstanding among the associate members of the Zilla Parishad belonging to the Congress, Trinamul and the BJP.
The state government has agreed to share the cost of the proposed extension of the Metro railway from Dumdum to Dakshineshwar via Baranagar. However, it has agreed to bear only one-third of the project cost. The railways had urged the state government to share half of the project cost. The local CPI-M MP for Dum Dum, Mr Amitabha Nandy, has been quite keen on the project, taking it up with the Union railway minister, Mr Lalu Prasad. The total estimated cost of the project has been pegged at Rs 537 crore.