More than 2,000 temporary workers of Hooghly-Chinsurah municipality, who had been demanding their wages for the last three months, have stopped rendering essential civic services from yesterday, causing misery to the residents of the joint civic area.
A school in Arambag has decided on organic farming to provide insecticides and pesticides-free organic vegetables in mid-day meals.
More than 2,000 temporary workers of Hooghly-Chinsurah municipality are in great distress after being unpaid for three months.
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 civic authorities have informed the police about these structures and the borough executive officers have been asked to keep a tab on them.
The girl had not returned home from her tuition classes yesterday evening and her worried parents had started a search and lodged a missing person diary at Polba police station.
According to the state transport minister, Snehasis Chakraborty, several thousand local operators were working with the importexport business. Their number, according to the minister, is large.
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.
