East Burdwan exceeds target in Annapurna Yojana registrations on launch day
East Burdwan has set a benchmark by surpassing its registration target under the Annapurna Yojana on the day of its formal launch.
East Burdwan has set a benchmark by surpassing its registration target under the Annapurna Yojana on the day of its formal launch.
Police on Friday arrested a Trinamul Congress panchayat member for allegedly accepting a bribe to facilitate allotment of houses under the Awas Yojana and later issuing death threats when asked to return the money.
A couple from East Burdwan, who had spent nearly 10 months in jail in Bengaluru along with their infant son on alleged charges of being Bangladeshi infiltrators, are now facing a fresh struggle after their names were omitted from the latest supplementary voter list.
In a notable display of environmental responsibility, Trinamul Congress (TMC) candidate for the Ausgram constituency in East Burdwan, Shyamaprasanna Lohar, halted his election campaign to help extinguish a forest fire in the Ausgram jungles today.
A local BJP leader in Galsi of East Burdwan district on Saturday alleged that despite his name appearing on the list for the West Bengal government's Awas Yojana (Housing Scheme), the funds never reached his bank account.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee expressed satisfaction over the success of Sabuj Sathi project that has won global recognition.
A special programme was organised today by the department of land and land reforms and refugee relief and rehabilitation.
Traders and consumers are struggling to cope with soaring prices of aromatic rice in the retail market – even at its birthplace in East Burdwan, Bengal’s rice bowl.
July accounted for 82 per cent of the total monsoon precipitation this year in East Burdwan — one of Bengal’s key agricultural districts.
The state land and land revenue department has filed a police complaint after the son of a local leader allegedly encroached upon vested government land in Ausgram, East Burdwan, to set up a fly-ash brick manufacturing unit.
