With just 15 days to go before the much-awaited Jagannath Dham at Digha, East Midnapore is unveiled and thrown open to the public, on 30 April, by chief minister Mamata Banerjee
The state chief secretary, Manoj Pant, today urged the dismissed teachers—rendered jobless by the Supreme Court verdict—to exercise restraint and refrain from taking the law into their own hands.
Calcutta High Court today issued summons to the state chief secretary Manoj Pant on charges of alleged contempt of court for not implementing the high court order over cancellation of OBC certificates and also asked the chief secretary to clarify personally on the next date of hearing, 12 March.
With an eye on facilitating industrial growth and enhancing the ease of doing business in the state, the state government has formed a state-level investment synergy committee, which will work as a single window for clearance of investment proposals.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has directed chief secretary Manoj Pant to investigate the reasons behind the tea board's decision to halt plucking on 30 November last year.
She even set a seven-day deadline to the Birbhum DM to settle all the issues. Within 24 hours of the CM directive, a high-level team of the state government held a review meeting and looked at ways to expedite the project construction.
The chief minister also pulled up the state education minister Bratya Basu for taking such a decision, without consulting her.
West Bengal Joint Doctors’ Forum, a platform of senior doctors, staging a sit-in near Dorina Crossing in connection with the rape and murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar
Senior doctors of state-run hospitals have sought an appointment with chief secretary Manoj Pant to discuss streamlining work from Swasthya Bhavan.
The state government at a meeting with the school education department today directed that money meant for tablets or smartphones for students of Class XI and XII should be disbursed after it is linked with the Aadhaar of the respective students, from next year.
