The West Bengal government plans to create an additional one lakh Self-Help Groups (SHGs) during the current year to further strengthen rural livelihoods and women’s economic empowerment, state panchayat and rural development minister Dilip Ghosh said on Saturday.
According to the documents made public by Chattopadhyay, 67 MLAs attended the 6 May meeting at 30B Harish Chatterjee Street.
Under the new policy bottlers were allegedly extorted per crate of liquor and beer, the proceeds went to TMC and Abhishek Banerjee’s coffers. Hopeful that extortion would end under the new BJP govt, liquor bottlers are getting together to demand back their illegally taken money.
The INDIA bloc suffered a mega setback after the assembly elections as two of its major political parties, the TMC and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), suffered electoral setbacks in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu respectively.
The exercise, launched through the Minority Affairs and Madrasah Education Department, is being called an administrative review aimed at compiling updated information on madrasas operating across the state.
Speaking about the cooperation received by the state government, Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that after a long phase of inactivity, developmental projects are now being fastracked.
Hitting out at the previous Trinamool Congress (TMC) government, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari claimed that illegal weapons were "stockpiled" and used to terrorise citizens.
The investigation reveals that Saokat Molla played a central role not only in the planning of the blast but also in efforts to conceal evidence after the deadly explosion.
The Trinamul Congress (TMC) on Friday announced a major organisational overhaul at its national working committee meeting held at the party headquarters in Kalighat, appointing senior minister Chandrima Bhattacharya as the new president of the West Bengal Pradesh Trinamul Congress.
Senior leader Chandrima Bhattacharya has replaced veteran organiser Subrata Bakshi as the party's state president.
