These 17 urban local bodies in the state are, Asansol, Bankura, Purulia, Birbhum, Burdwan, Siliguri, jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, Dinajpur, Malda, Murshidabad, West Midnapore, Murshidabad, Malda, Nadia, Hooghly, East Midnapore etc.
All the municipality and panchayat areas within Hooghly district are on high alert to face any kind of emergency situation arising from the cyclone.
The Hooghly rural police have introduced three pink patrol mobile vans and twenty five e-cycles for the police women winners’ team.
Hooghly MP Rachna Banerjee visited the flood affected areas of Balagarh on Wednesday, carrying with her relief items for the affected victims.
A 28 year-old youth of Hooghly district died at R G Kar Medical College Hospital on Friday.
While criticising the role of the police on this count, the bench also alerted the administration to be careful so that such incidents are not repeated.
"No restriction is being imposed on voice calls and SMS and on newspapers hence communication and dissemination of knowledge and information is not stopped in any way," the state government's order added.
District president Arindam Guin addressing a press meet today said in every possible way the central government is depriving the state central assistance through funds
Extensive loss of land area adjacent to the Hooghly river bank is taking place but the concerned department, while well aware of the alarming situation
Once upon a time in the village of Narayanpur there lived a bunch of people who assembled children's toys at the rate of 144 toys for Rs 20. Calculation yields that assembling one toy fetches them a little more than 13 paise and a little less than 14 paise. But alas, as much as I would have wished I was talking about some distant past when calculations were still in paise, I am not.
