Section 48 provides for constitution of State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) for the purposes of meeting natural disaster. It is a state level fund with 25 per cent being state government contribution.
January 7, 2021The storm led to problems with supply of drinking water, damaged roads, forests, power supply lines, education and health infrastructure and activities of some 26,000 MSM entrepreneurs
October 8, 2020The incident took place in Kultali, one of the worst-hit areas by the cyclone Amphan.
July 2, 2020The team is hanging artificial nests for the birds who need the shelters during monsoon.
June 16, 2020The engineers have been able to restore one route out of the seven, after rigorous trial runs which were conducted on 12 and 13 June by WBTC. Services of the restored route number 24/29 between Tollygunge and Ballygunge resumed today.
June 15, 2020Firhad Hakim says KMC adopting two-pronged approach amidst Covid crisis, spraying sodium hypochlorite to prevent dengue outbreak.
June 13, 2020President Macron, in his letter, also underscored importance of cooperation between the two countries at multilateral level and the support that India will be in a position to extend to France’s actions initiated under G20 as well as to the Access to Covid Tools - Accelerator (ACT-A) initiative.
June 4, 2020Addressing a Press conference, he said that Miss Banerjee has claimed that 8 lakh migrant workers have returned to Bengal, and questioned where they are staying now.
June 4, 2020The cheque was accepted by Rajiva Sinha, IAS, Chief Secretary, Government of West Bengal.
June 2, 2020Markets, public transportation, religious places, industries, including the film industry have been allowed to resume functioning outside containment zones from today.
June 2, 2020The state forest minister Rajib Banerjee today said “There has been a loss of green cover over 1600 sqkm amounting to a loss of 16 lakh trees."
May 31, 2020“Neither the local political representative like MLA nor officials of the state electricity board is active to restore the supply. We have never had to spend such a long harrowing period living in darkness,” said Mr Sudhir Pal of Dhamua village in the district.
May 31, 2020A large number of the make-shift stalls have been destroyed after uprooted tree tress fell on them, while others got blown away in the strong wind that rampaged the city for hours.
May 27, 2020As per the CWC, a flood warning has been sounded in Jorhat, Sonitpur, and Baksa districts.
May 26, 2020It was Kartik Marjit who stood guard at the main electric transformer to monitor the repair works while his neighbor, Kajal Marjit climbed the electric poles and reconnected the snapped wires.
May 26, 2020“You have to understand the ground level problem. I’ve asked the mayor to engage local youths and clubs to clear debris from the roads,” she said.
May 24, 2020Similarly, some of the glass screen doors at the elevated station in the recently opened East-West Metro have also been damaged.
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