Central team starts visiting different development projects run under central government schemes
The team arrived in the district last night, and today morning started visiting different areas under the Gangarampur sub-division
The team arrived in the district last night, and today morning started visiting different areas under the Gangarampur sub-division
In the last Assembly elections, BJP candidate Dr Ashok Lahiri secured a lead of almost 10,000 votes in the municipality area. The tenure of the elected board in the civic body expired in October 2018, while administrators have been handling matters there ever since.
Balurghat was the district headquarters of Dinajpur during British rule. The Balurghat Co-operative Bank Bhaban, the District Magistrate's Office and the City Bank Bhaban were all constructed during that period.
After the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, 10 ZP members, including the Sabhadhipati, had joined the BJP with Mr Mitra. The then TMC district president Arpita Ghosh had expelled the 10 from the party, while nine of the posts of the sthayee samitis had become vacant then.
According to sources at the district food control office, 75 per cent of the uploading work was completed, but only 45 per cent was verified by the central agency, while it has rejected the others for mismatch of information like spelling mistakes, date of birth etc.
Teachers trained to impart lessons through tele-conferencing have said that they have so far received only one single phone call from a student since August when the initiative was started to help students in far-flung villages
As the government has prepared the list of schools and teachers across the state that will be awarded on Teachers' Day on 5 September, no primary school and no teacher from either the primary or higher level in the district has been selected for the Shiksha Ratna Award this year.
An apolitical organisation called 'Shiksha Alachona' in the district started the initiative with a view to keeping in touch with the students of remote areas so that they can continue with their studies even during the pandemic.
It is learnt that three persons, including two residents of Mainaguri in Jalpaiguri district, and a resident of Ward 41 in the SMC died at Dr Dhhang's Hospital at Matigara, while two residents of Siliguri died in the Desun Hospital at Kawakhali.
In South Dinajpur district, 53 new cases of Covid19 have been detected.
