Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister said on Friday that the census will start from August 1, while asserting that the late beginning of the process had been due to the lackadaisical approach of the previous Mamata Banerjee-led government. “The Union Government sent a communique to the previous state government in February last year to begin the process. But the previous state Cabinet did not act based on that communique. The previous state government did not even bother to reply …
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Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari will chair a crucial meeting at the state secretariat, Nabanna, on Friday to discuss ways to accelerate the census process in the state.The decision to begin the census process was taken at the first meeting of the new cabinet led by Adhikari as West Bengal’s ninth Chief Minister on May 11.After that, the state government issued a notification allocating responsibilities to various levels of officials to complete the census work….
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) West Bengal government has taken an in-principle decision to reinstate a nominee in the Damodar Valley Reservoir Regulation Committee, which was withdrawn by the previous Trinamool Congress-ruled and Mamata Banerjee-led state cabinet. In September 2024, Mamata Banerjee wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, communicating her decision to withdraw representation from the Damodar Valley Reservoir Regulation Committee because the Damodar Valley Corporation had been releasing w…
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) In a major step towards providing a clean and corruption-free administration in the state, the West Bengal government on Monday appointed a set of West Bengal Civil Service (WBCS) officers as “executive assistants” to ministers in the newly formed cabinet led by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari.The selections were reportedly made from among bureaucrats known for clean, transparent, and politically neutral service records.The State Personnel and Administrative Reforms De…
Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) The West Bengal Backward Class Development Department had directed District Magistrates to re-verify all Backward Class certificates, including Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Class (OBC) documents issued in their respective districts in the last 15 years from 2011 to 2026, that is the three terms of the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government in the state.Insiders from the current state secretariat of Nabanna said that cle…
Kolkata, May 15 (IANS) The new Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled West Bengal Government has decided to organise “Janatar Darbar (People’s Court)” for two hours twice a week soon, where the Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, will be present to listen to public grievances directly from the people. An insider from the current state secretariat of Nabanna said that although an official notification in the matter had not yet been issued, the Chief Minister’s Office had taken an in-principle decisi…
Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday issued strict instructions at a police administration meeting, saying that the public address system must not be played beyond the permissible limit at religious places and events. He said that if the limit is crossed, the police will have to take strict action.To ensure compliance, Suvendu Adhikari addressed the police officers in a stern tone during the meeting.Adhikari, who has taken charge of the state administration…
Kolkata, May 13 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari will chair a crucial meeting at the current state secretariat in Nabanna in Kolkata-adjacent Howrah district on Wednesday to review the functioning and performance of as many as 41 state government departments.An insider from the state secretariat said that the review meeting is expected to be a marathon one since it is intended to identify the functional lapses of these departments and suggest measures to improve.Five representa…
Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) The West Bengal government has decided to withdraw the ‘Z-plus’ security cover provided to Trinamool Congress General Secretary and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee, a government official said on Monday.According to the official, the additional security personnel and special pilot car facility allotted to Abhishek Banerjee will no longer remain in force.It may be noted that Abhishek Banerjee had been provided ‘Z-plus’ security cover for more than 10 years. Howe…
Kolkata, May 11(IANS) The new government led by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari will be a “West Bengal government” in the true sense and not a “Bharatiya Janata Party government”, BJP’s West Bengal president and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya said here on Monday.Speaking to media persons while the Chief Minister stood beside him, Bhattacharya said the state government would function independently, with coordination with the party limited to ensuring the smooth implementation of comm…