Kolkata, July 16 (IANS) The West Bengal mass education extension and library services department has decided to launch a full-fledged probe into alleged irregularities in procurement of books for government-run libraries and also libraries in state-run schools during the Trinamool regime.Several complaints have been received by the office of the Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, about rampant corruption in purchase of books with pathetic literary or content qualities by the state-run libraries j…
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Kolkata, June 11 (IANS) Newly appointed state Public Education and Library Minister Gouri Shankar Ghosh on Thursday said that frivolous books written by former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will no longer be kept in government libraries. Such libraries used to have various books by Mamata Banerjee, which, according to the minister, were not serious and contained meaningless poems. After the change of power in the state, the layout of libraries is changing. Instead, there will be books about the…
Kolkata, Jan 14 (IANS) Two persons were arrested on Wednesday after an irate mob, led by Trinamool Congress MLA from Farakka, Monirul Islam, vandalised the Farakka Block Development Office (BDO) in Murshidabad district and ransacked the chamber of the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO).The vandalism by ruling party workers resulted in the suspension of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) hearing of the voter list, which was underway at the BDO office.Following the incident, the BDO, Farakka f…