Kolkata, May 15 (IANS) Priyadarshini Mallick, the daughter of Jyotipriya Mallick, a former Food and Supplies Minister linked with the PDS scam during the previous Trinamool Congress administration, has been removed from her position as secretary of the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE), the body responsible for conducting the state board higher secondary examination.Sources within the State Education Department said that despite being asked to resign from her position as…
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Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) The new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led West Bengal government has decided to decentralise the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC), which was marred by controversies over massive irregularities in the recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff in state-run schools during the previous Trinamool Congress regime, in an attempt to ensure greater efficiency and transparency in the recruitment process.As the first step, the old system of operating WBSSC through fi…
Shillong, Jan 20 (IANS) Veteran Meghalaya Congress leader Manuel Badwar, on Tuesday, called upon the Central government to take serious note of the continuing menace of illegal coal mining and transportation in the state, asserting that repeated incidents linked to the practice reflect administrative failure and a lack of accountability. Reacting to recent mishaps associated with illegal coal mining in the East Jaintia Hills district, Badwar said the unregulated extraction and supply of coal has…
Kolkata, Dec 23 (IANS) The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), on Tuesday, approached a division bench of the Calcutta High Court, challenging the order by a single-judge bench of the same court earlier this month, cancelling the jobs of 313 teachers, attached to different GTA-run schools in the hills scattered over Darjeeling, Kurseong, and Kalimpong in West Bengal. The matter will be heard at the Jalpaiguri Circuit Bench by the division bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justi…