Darjeeling MP Raju Bista today raised critical concerns in Parliament regarding the West Bengal government’s controversial land policy, which he warned could displace indigenous communities in the Darjeeling Hills, Terai, and Dooars regions.
The Bengal government has withdrawn its representatives on the Damodar Valley Reservoir Regulation Committee (DVRRC), even as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote a second time to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Damodar Valley Corporation’s uncontrolled water release from the Maithon and Panchet reservoirs.
After waiting for long for central funds to arrive for dredging and desilting of the Damodar Barrage in Durgapur, the Bengal government has ordered a state-owned company to do the job.
Inflow of water to the upper reservoirs caused by the unrelenting rain eventually has forced the Damodar Valley Corporation to intensify the discharges of its prime feeder dams, Panchet and Maithon, resulting in the Durgapur barrage to scale up rate of outflow today.
While preparing its reply to the Bengal government’s charges of 'man-made' flood by releasing flood water without informing the state, the Damodar Valley Corporation dams intends to go for further enhanced discharge to create space for more water inflow from the upper catchment areas.
To irrigate the parched Bengal farmlands, Damodar Valley Corporation, has kicked off the first-phase release of irrigation water today.
An integration of organic photodetector and organic spin valve in a single device brought the Bengal government's gold medal for a PhD researcher with the Kazi Nazrul University in Asansol.
Already 11 lakh people have registered but the actual figure could go up to 16 to 17 lakh, the chief minister
The Bengal government is planning to invite publicprivate participation in onion, orange and pineapple procurement, storage and processing with an ambition to ensure both self reliance and availability of the produce in times of shortage, said Arup Roy, state food processing and horticulture minister.
The Bengal government on Sunday notified that Poila Boisakh, (the first day of the month of Boisakh of the Bengali calendar year) will be observed as State Day and it will be named Bangla Divas.
