In a renewed effort to address the long-pending issue of minimum wages for tea plantation workers, labour minister Moloy Ghatak convened a crucial meeting on Saturday.
The meeting convened by labour minister Moloy Ghatak to resolve the bonus issue for tea workers in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) area ended inconclusively.
The first meeting of the electoral roll scrutiny of the West Burdwan TMC Observation Committee took place at Asansol.
Minister in-charge of labour, law, and judicial departments, Moloy Ghatak, has called a high-level meeting to discuss pressing concerns related to tea gardens and the tea industry in West Bengal.
The Asansol Minibus Association and the Asansol Bus Association has announced free travel to Madhyamik examinees in Asansol sadar sub-division this year, both in minibuses and in public buses.
Asansol South Police has already started investigations and are scanning the CCTV footages of the house in the resident of businessman Subir Basu in North Hill View area.
An FIR has been lodged against twelve persons by a resident of Hill View area under Hirapur Police Station.
Law minister Moloy Ghatak has announced that the state government has agreed to set up a flyover in Asansol Town on the G T Road to decongest traffic and also set up a medical college very soon at the district headquarters.
After the postponement of the Tea Advisory Council (TAC) meeting, which was convened by the labour minister as a chairman and scheduled to take place at the Tea Directorate office in Siliguri today, controversies have arisen over the last-minute cancellation and the reasons behind it.
The attendance in the industrial region of Asansol and Durgapur has remained normal today and there has been very little effect of the bandh, claimed state labour minister Moloy Ghatak today.
