Political, industry leaders welcome Metro surveys for Asansol and Durgapur
Finance minister Swapan Dasgupta yesterday announced surveys for proposed Metro rail projects in three cities of the state ~ Asansol, Durgapur and Siliguri.
Finance minister Swapan Dasgupta yesterday announced surveys for proposed Metro rail projects in three cities of the state ~ Asansol, Durgapur and Siliguri.
Durgapur has five industrial estates managed by the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation accommodating many private factories, but no electronics equipment manufacturing plant as yet.
Hundreds of BJP supporters gathered outside a party office in Durgapur after TMC block president Rajib Ghosh reportedly arrived there late at night.
BJP MLA Chandrashekhar Banerjee alleges 18 Durgapur parking zones were secretly handed to a TMC-linked INTTUC leader through women's SHGs as fronts. ADDA forms probe panel; report expected next month.
The construction of the new Durgapur Sub-Divisional Court building has run into controversy, with the BJP alleging corruption by a former minister, besides, against the chief of a statutory urban development body today.
The incident took place on Thursday morning at Booth No. 230, located at Kuldihi Primary School. According to reports, the voter, identified as Tumpa Hazra, had arrived at the polling station to cast her vote and was waiting in line when a section of the ceiling suddenly broke off and fell on her.
Two Election Commission officials were allegedly dragged out of their vehicle and thrashed by a local TMC leader, Somnath Das.
A longstanding quest for green steel, besides the growing desperation to contribute to breakthroughs in research and development, together have recently instigated a bunch of scientists and scholars to rush to Australia from Durgapur, Asansol, Dhanbad, Mumbai and Hyderabad.
The district electoral department has proposed the bifurcation of polling stations with more than 1,200 voters across all nine Assembly constituencies of the district, based on the draft electoral roll published on 16 December last year.
At a time when Netaji's grandnephew's 'final request', made to the Prime Minister for bringing the mortal remains of one of the country's leading liberators remains unanswered, another request made by a Durgapur youth for setting up a memorial of the iconic leader in New Delhi too hangs in limbo over the last four years.
