Spotlight on displacement for effective climate action
The voices of those who get amplified will rarely reflect the realities of those living on the margins and bearing the brunt of a warming planet.
The voices of those who get amplified will rarely reflect the realities of those living on the margins and bearing the brunt of a warming planet.
That the two disasters coincided was in itself one of the deepest tragedies that the state contenanced. Described as the "costliest tropical cyclone of the year", the report has been crafted by Christian Aid, a relief and development agency based in London. It is said to have displaced 4.9 million people across the affected countries in the Bay of Bengal.
It is learnt that the party's state president Subrata Bakshi, secretary general Partha Chatterjee, vice president Subrata Mukherjee and Trinamul Youth Congress president Abhishek Banerjee held a meeting with poll strategist Prashant Kishore and took this decision.
The Covid-19 pandemic has restricted the ecotourism influx in forest areas; labour migration was also stopped due to the lockdown.
The UN Central Emergency Response Fund recently provided UN agencies with 5.2 million US dollars to help families most at risk, the spokesman said.
Education Minister Partha Chatterjee had said the state government will let the universities decide on the possible date of reopening of the campuses.
Meanwhile, there are several uprooted trees in Behala that can only be removed when power connections are shut down but due to ongoing protests by the locals to restore power connections, KMC is facing a challenge.
The Union government had announced free food grain for general category people earlier and later more specifically for migrant workers and those without ration cards.
Ninety per cent electricity restored, says chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
The horticulture officials said banana (Musa sp.) is the second most important fruit crop in India next to mango.
