Kolkata, July 26 (IANS) The West Bengal government is set to bring a major change in the attendance system of government employees, a government official said on Sunday. From now onwards, there is no need to install any separate biometric hardware machine in the office of respective departments.Under the new rules, employees will be able to give attendance directly from the office premises using their mobile phones. As a result, not only will the government save a huge amount of money, but the a…
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Kolkata, July 22 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Wednesday, refused an immediate intervention in the of the recent notification issued by the new Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled and Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari-led West Bengal government on other backward class (OBC) reservation in the state. The last notification issued by the state government in May this year cancelled the recognition of 74 communities under the OBC category, who were recognised by the previous Mamata Ba…
Kolkata, July 22 (IANS) The West Bengal Government will be placing the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India on the income and expenditures from the state exchequer on the floor of the Assembly on July 25, which will be the last day of the ongoing extended Budget Session of the House.Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari made an announcement on this count while addressing the floor of the House on Wednesday afternoon while giving his reply on discussions on the budgetary alloc…
Kolkata, July 17 (IANS) The death toll in the tragic incident at Karnasubarna in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district earlier in the day, when a train collided with a van at a railway crossing, has risen to five, with four being school children and one an adult.Meanwhile, both the Railways department and the West Bengal government have announced compensation for the families of the deceased individuals. Some other schoolchildren and the driver of the van are currently under treatment at Baharampur…
Kolkata, July 16 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee has approached the Calcutta High Court seeking the scrapping of the FIR registered against him by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in the legislators’ signatures mismatch case. Earlier, senior Trinamool legislator Sovandeb Chattopadhyay had challenged a CID notice in the matter before the High Court.Based on Banerjee’s petition, the High Court on Thursday issued a notice to the West Ben…
Kolkata, July 15 (IANS) In a move aimed at strengthening transparency and financial discipline in government functioning, the West Bengal government has directed all departments and public bodies to stop repeatedly extending contracts awarded to the same agencies and instead invite fresh tenders before existing contracts expire.A government statement said on Wednesday that extending the term of the same agency repeatedly after the expiry of the contract will not be allowed anymore.According to t…
Kolkata, July 15 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the West Bengal government to clarify its stand on the venue for the Martyrs’ Day rally to be organised by the Mamata Banerjee-led faction of Trinamool Congress on July 21.After the Kolkata Police denied permission to the Mamata Banerjee-led faction to hold the rally at the traditional venue in front of the CESC House near Esplanade Crossing in Central Kolkata, the faction approached the Calcutta High…
Kolkata, July 12 (IASN) Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Saugata Roy on Sunday reiterated his party’s opposition to the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), asserting that it would infringe upon the rights of minority communities. His remarks come on the back of West Bengal government constituting a high-level committee to prepare the draft UCC Bill for the state.Speaking to IANS, Roy reacted to the state government’s decision to form the panel, saying, “…We oppose the Uniform Civil Code because it will…
Kolkata, July 8 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the West Bengal government to submit an affidavit on the status of its proposal to entrust the responsibility of providing midday meals in state-run schools within the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) area to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).A PIL filed in the matter came up for hearing before the division bench of the Calcutta High Court’s Acting Chief Justice Tapabrata Chakra…
Kolkata, July 1 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday received the West Bengal government’s approval to frame charges against former R.G. Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh in the multi-crore financial irregularities case. The permission to the ED to begin the charge-framing process against Ghosh was long held back by the previous Trinamool Congress-ruled and Mamata Banerjee-led government. However, after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power, Chief Minister Suven…