HC raps Bengal govt over pending DA arrears to power sector employees
Justice Rajasekhar Mantha of Calcutta High Court has directed the state government to pay all pending arrear dues to the WBSEDCL employees by December 6.
Justice Rajasekhar Mantha of Calcutta High Court has directed the state government to pay all pending arrear dues to the WBSEDCL employees by December 6.
Bench sought a report from the state government on how many cases have been filed for violating the beacon rules.
Instead, he has told the prison authorities that he would be more comfortable with the traditional physical presence system at the time of hearing.
The agency officials have contacted all the bank authorities concerned and asked for statement details, following which they will be sent for forensic audit.
The most among the two is Sukanta Acharya, a West Bengal Civil Service (Executive Office), who had been the personal assistant to Chatterjee during his tenure as the state education minister, as well as when he was the commerce & industries minister.
He also sought information on the expenses towards funds spent out of the Consolidated fund of the State for making print and electronic advertisements on behalf of the state government, including expenses relating to ‘antiCAA’ and the details about the lease agreement with the private company in connection with chartering/leasing of a private plane.
He alleged that the Fourth SFC “abysmally failed to discharge its constitutional duties. Also, there is a serious dereliction of duty and negligence at the level of the Finance Minister and top bureaucracy in the matter. Surprisingly, this noncompliance was given quietus, as if this gross constitutional transgression will never come to be noticed..."
The World Bank communique states that West Bengal runs more than 400 programmes which provide social assistance, protection, care services and jobs through an umbrella platform 'Joy Bangla', the state's unified delivery system with focus on vulnerable group such as women, elderly, tribal and scheduled caste, people with disabilities and those in the disaster-prone coastal regions.
The state government has also made it clear that the land should be big enough so that it can have a 3-km runway to accommodate larger planes like Boeing 777. The indications are clear that the state is keen to develop an airport which will be big enough with facilities equal to the present airport.
The condition of Nabanna is such that the state administration had to sanitise the entire building three times in the last week. "Most of the senior officials are falling sick and they are staying at home. Many works are pending because the concerned officers can't come to the office because of Covid. Naturally files are getting piled up and we don't know when everything will be cleared," the official said.
