Kolkata, May 30 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, on Saturday announced that the health department will start “live monitoring” of district hospitals in the state to curb malaises plaguing the healthcare system.He said that through this live monitoring of functioning of hospitals, the government wants to cure three long-standing malaises, namely absence of doctors during official duty hours, rampant reference of patients to medical colleges and hospitals in Kolkata without ade…
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Kolkata, May 30 (IANS) Amid speculation over the complexity of the 12-page application form for the Annapurna Yojana, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday said state government staff will visit beneficiaries’ homes to assist them in filling out the forms.The scheme offers a monthly allowance of Rs 3000 to the women in the state.The Chief Minister made this announcement while speaking to the media on the sidelines of a cervical cancer vaccination camp inauguration in Bidhanna…
Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday announced compensation of Rs 4,00,000 for each of the families of seven people in the sudden thunderstorms in the state. These seven persons died due to lightning, electrocution and house collapse during thunderstorms in mainly Kolkata, Howrah, North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Hooghly and Purulia.The bodies of the deceased victims had been sent for post-mortem.Speaking to the media persons on Friday evening, Chief …
Murshidabad, May 29 (IANS) Amid the BJP government’s measures against illegal infiltrators in West Bengal, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Friday asked, “what stopped the BJP-led Centre from driving out Bangladeshi infiltrators from West Bengal during their three-term regime at the Centre?”Notably, ever since the BJP came to power in Bengal, the Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari-led government has set up ‘holding centres’ in the state for providing temporary accommodation to illegal infi…
Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) The new and the ninth Chief Minister of West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari, on Friday announced the state government’s decision to clear hurdles for the commencement of a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into alleged irregularities in the recruitment of teachers in Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA)-run schools in the Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong regions in the northern zone of West Bengal.Although the Calcutta High Court had earlier directed a CBI p…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Massive gatherings have been reported at the India-Bangladesh border following an aggressive campaign launched by the newly formed BJP government in West Bengal to drive out illegal immigrants. The government has directed the administration to detect, detain and deport illegal immigrants.Many who entered the country illegally have been self-deporting themselves as they do not want to be put in detention centres. However, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has explicitly ord…
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 28 (IANS) Doctor and Trinamool Congress leader, Santanu Sen, resigned from the post of the party’s All-India Spokesperson, by sending a letter to former Chief Minister and Trinamool supremo, Mamata Banerjee on Thursday.The former Rajya Sabha MP said that he has decided to leave the post after accepting the verdict of the people in state Assembly elections.Santanu had spoken out about hospital corruption after the rape and murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospi…
Gandhinagar, May 28 (IANS) Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, on Thursday said the newly-formed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in West Bengal had handed over 600 hectares of land to the Border Security Force (BSF) within seven days to strengthen fencing work along the Bangladesh border.Addressing a public gathering in Sonipur village of Gandhinagar district during the inauguration and foundation stone laying ceremony for development works worth Rs 340 crore, HM Shah said the BJP had fulfil…
Kolkata, May 28 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday performed puja rituals at the ISKCON temple in Mayapur, located in Nadia district.On arrival at the temple premises on Thursday afternoon, he was received by ISKCON monks, who welcomed him with garlands.He participated in special rituals in the temple. Later, the Chief Minister visited the cowshed within the ISKCON complex and performed a special Gau-Seva (service to cows) there in the presence of the monks.He washed …