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  • Bengal wins SKOCH ‘Ease of Doing Business’ Award

    The West Bengal authorities has bagged the SKOCH award for ‘ease of doing business’, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has mentioned.

    She mentioned the state was chosen for the honours due to a number of initiatives taken by her authorities.

    “Glad to share that in the SKOCH state of governance report 2021, West Bengal has topped nationally in the ‘Ease of Doing Business’. The ‘Star of Governance’ SKOCH award is being conferred on us on 18th June at New Delhi,” Banerjee tweeted on Wednesday.

    This award is being given for the initiatives taken by us in introducing round 100 new on-line providers, discount and rationalisation of round 500 enterprise associated compliance burdens on business, growth of division smart dashboards and so on. Egiye Bangla!(2/2)

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    — Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) June 1, 2022

    “This award is being given for the initiatives taken by us in introducing around 100 new online services, reduction and rationalisation of around 500 business-related compliance burdens on industry, development of department-wise dashboards, etc. Egiye Bangla!” she added.

    The state has just lately received a SKOCH award for training.

  • TMC nominates Jawhar Sircar for Rajya Sabha by-election

    The Trinamool Congress on Saturday nominated former bureaucrat Jawhar Sircar as its candidate for the upcoming Rajya Sabha by-election within the state.

    The Election Commission had on July 16 mentioned that bypoll to the Rajya Sabha seat from West Bengal vacated by Dinesh Trivedi earlier this 12 months shall be held on August 9.
    “We are delighted to nominate Jawhar Sircar in the Upper House of Parliament,” a celebration assertion mentioned.

    We are delighted to appoint Mr. @jawharsircar within the Upper House of the Parliament.
    Mr. Sircar spent practically 42 years in public service & was additionally the previous CEO of Prasar Bharati. His invaluable contribution to public service shall assist us serve our nation even higher!
    — All India Trinamool Congress (@AITCofficial) July 24, 2021
    Sircar spent practically 42 years in public service and was additionally the previous CEO of Prasar Bharati, the ruling occasion within the state mentioned.
    “His contribution to the public service shall help us serve our country even better,” it mentioned.
    Reacting to his nomination, Sircar mentioned, “I was a bureaucrat. I am not a political person but I would work for the development of the people and raise the issues concerning the masses in parliament.”

    The bypoll to the Rajya Sabha seat from the state shall be held if the opposition BJP fields its candidate for a similar, in any other case, the TMC candidate shall be declared elected unopposed.

  • ‘Sad for myself’: MoS Environment Babul Supriyo resigns forward of Cabinet reshuffle

    Ahead of the upcoming reshuffle of the Union Cabinet, Union Minister Babul Supriyo submitted his resignation on Wednesday.
    Supriyo, the Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, wrote on Facebook: “Yes, I have resigned from the Council Of Ministers !!  (As I had framed it earlier, “Asked to resign” might not be the suitable strategy to put it 😊) I thank Hon’ble Prime Minister for giving me the privilege to serve my nation as a Member of his Council of Ministers.”

    The Asansol MP additional mentioned he has all the time served his constituency to the most effective of his potential and was glad that there have been no corruption costs towards him.
    He added: “My bestest of wishes to my colleagues, whose names I can’t spell out but by now everyone is aware, will be sworn in as Hon’ble Ministers from Bengal. I am surely SAD for myself but very HAPPY for them.”

    Hours forward of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet growth on Wednesday, at the very least 12 ministers have resigned from the council of ministers to date. Among the massive names are Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank.
    Other ministers who’re out of the Cabinet are  Santosh Gangwar, Debasree Chaudhuri, Rattan Lal Kataria, Sanjay Dhotre, Thawarchand Gehlot, Pratap Chandra Sarangi (MoS), and Ashwini Chaubey (MoS).

  • Justice Chanda recuses from listening to Mamata’s election plea, fines her Rs 5 lakh

    Imposing a high-quality of Rs 5 lakh on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Justice Kausik Chanda of the Calcutta High Court recused himself from listening to her petition difficult the election of BJP chief BJP Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari from Nandigram.
    “I have no personal inclination to hear out petitioner’s case. I have no hesitation in taking up this case either. It is my Constitutional duty to hear out a case assigned to me by the CJI. I have, however, decided to recuse myself from this case,” Justice Chanda was quoted as saying by Live Law on Wednesday.
    In June, Mamata’s counsel sought Justice Chanda’s recusal, referring to publicly accessible materials that confirmed his “close personal, professional, pecuniary and ideological relationship” with the BJP. The Trinamool Congress had earlier launched images of Justice Chanda with West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh.
    On Wednesday, Justice Chanda mentioned “trouble-mongers” will attempt to preserve the controversy alive if he doesn’t recuse from the case.
    He additionally mentioned that Mamata’s objection to his affirmation as a everlasting Judge of the High Court shouldn’t be related to her recusal plea.
    “Petitioner cannot seek recusal based on her own consent or objection with regard to appointment of a Judge. A Judge cannot be said to be biased because of a litigant’s own personal action,” he mentioned.
    Imposing a high-quality of Rs 5 lakh, Justice Chanda mentioned: “Such calculative, psychological and offensive attempt to seek recusal need to be firmly repulsed.”
    The cash might be deposited with the Bar Council of West Bengal inside 2 weeks and can be utilized for households of advocates who succumbed to Covid-19, he added.
    Banerjee was defeated by BJP Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari by 1,956 votes on the Nandigram seat. The CM has alleged that the Returning Officer had mentioned he was threatened.

  • NHRC units up panel to probe Bengal post-poll violence

    Complying with instructions of Calcutta High Court, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday arrange a committee to look into incidents of post-poll violence in West Bengal. The eight-member committee will probably be headed by NHRC member Rajiv Jain and is scheduled to start the investigation instantly.
    In a press release, NHRC mentioned the committee will study “all cases of post-poll violence in West Bengal for which complaints have already been received” in NHRC, “or which may be received”.
    Besides Jain, Atif Rasheed, vice-chairperson of National Commission for Minorities; (Dr) Rajulben L Desai, member, National Commission for Women, are a part of the fee together with two officers from the West Bengal State Human Rights Commission.
    On Monday, Calcutta High Court refused to listen to a plea by the West Bengal authorities in search of recall of its earlier order to look at all instances of alleged rights violations within the state. A five-judge bench headed by appearing Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal noticed that the June 18 order was handed after the State did not encourage the courtroom’s confidence.
    The HC had directed NHRC to inquire investigation in a plea filed by BJP candidate Priyanka Tibrewal, who misplaced the Assembly polls from Entally in Kolkata and alleged that many individuals had fled their houses to save lots of their lives through the post-poll violence.

  • Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar postpones departure from Delhi, prone to meet Home Minister Shah once more

    West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has postponed his Friday afternoon departure to Kolkata from right here, and is prone to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah once more in regards to the legislation and order state of affairs within the state, supply mentioned.
    Dhankhar had a gathering with Shah on Thursday as properly throughout which he’s believed to have briefed the house minister in regards to the legislation and order state of affairs within the state the place a number of incidents of post-poll violence have been reported.

    Sources mentioned Dhankhar was scheduled to depart Kolkata Friday afternoon, however the departure has been rescheduled for Saturday.
    A gathering with the house minister later within the day shouldn’t be dominated out, they added.

    Dhankhar arrived within the nationwide capital on Tuesday.
    A day earlier than his departure from Kolkata, a delegation of BJP MLAs had petitioned him on the alleged deterioration of legislation and order within the state.
    Dhankhar additionally wrote a letter to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, accusing her of being silent over post-poll violence within the state and never taking steps to rehabilitate the affected folks.
    He shared the letter on Twitter, a transfer the state dwelling division criticised as being violative of all established norms.

  • Bengal dying: Cops name it mishap, BJP says our man, do ‘fair probe’

    A 28-year-old man died in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district on Thursday in what the police suspect is a case of highway accident, even because the district BJP chief requested how the police can name it an accident and not using a correct investigation and demanded a good probe.
    The sufferer, Debashis Bhattacharya, was on method from Netajinagar in Matangini block to his dwelling in Tamluk, by way of Kolaghat, on his motorbike. He was discovered injured on the nationwide freeway; his bike was broken, the police mentioned Thursday.
    Incidentally, Bhattacharya had been booked six years in the past for allegedly slapping Abhishek Banerjee, now TMC common secretary, on the platform of a public assembly in Chandipur, Purba Medinipur.
    Superintendent of Police, Purba Medinipur, Amarnath Ok advised The Indian Express, “Prima Facie, he died in a road accident. He was taken to hospital by trauma care vehicle of national highway. His bike is kept in Kolaghat police station in damaged condition. It seems the bike skidded on road.”

    Police mentioned they haven’t acquired any grievance however acquired a petition that the postmortem must be finished through the day and must be videographed within the presence of a Justice of the Peace.

    BJP district president (Tamluk), Nabarun Nayak, mentioned: “He died at 4 pm (Thursday) while he was taken to hospital in morning. The police did not inform his family until he died. He was a BJP supporter. Without investigation, how can police be so sure that it was an accident?”
    An area TMC chief mentioned: “Only police can say what happened…BJP just needs an opportunity to accuse TMC.”

  • Mamata recordsdata election petition in opposition to Suvendu in Calcutta HC; listening to on Friday

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has filed an election petition in opposition to Suvendu Adhikari earlier than the Calcutta High Court and the matter is listed for listening to earlier than a single bench on Friday.
    As per the ’trigger record’ launched by the excessive court docket in its web site on Thursday, the matter is scheduled to be taken up through video convention earlier than the court docket of Justice Kausik Chanda as “to be mentioned”.
    The Election Commission had declared Adhikari the winner and the Trinamool Congress supremo the runner-up within the fiercely contested election for the Nandigram constituency.
    Alleging tampering of EVM machines and refusal of calls for for recounting by the involved EC official, Banerjee had stated following declaration of the outcomes that the doorways of the court docket will likely be knocked on the problem.
    BJP MLA Adhikari is at current the chief of the opposition within the West Bengal meeting.

  • Congress chief urges PM to deal with Bengal river financial institution erosion as nationwide catastrophe, launch funds

    Leader of the Congress within the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to deal with large-scale river financial institution erosion in Malda and Murshidabad districts of West Bengal as a nationwide catastrophe and launch satisfactory funds for mitigation.
    In a letter to the Prime Minister, the senior Congress chief, who can also be the social gathering’s state unit chief, mentioned that giant chunks of fertile lands have been misplaced to the Ganga, which flows via the 2 minority-dominated districts, rendering lakhs of individuals homeless and making them “neo-refugees”.

    “They become landless and lose their livelihood. Sometimes, poverty leads to an increase in crimes. It creates neo-refugees with many social problems,” the letter learn.
    Citing an instance of the issues confronted by the erosion-affected folks, Chowdhury mentioned a colony of such folks from Malda has come up in Mumbai’s Byculla space, the place they’re branded as Bangladeshi infiltrators as they’ve additionally misplaced their paperwork to the erosion.

    “During the UPA regime, a large fund was sanctioned for the above issue. I request you to kindly release adequate funds to check the land erosion and protect the life and livelihood of the affected people,” he mentioned.
    Chowdhury represents Berhampore Lok Sabha constituency in Murshidabad district. Ganga flows via Malda earlier than getting into Murshidabad, the place it splits into Bhagirathi that flows south via West Bengal and Padma which flows east into Bangladesh.

  • MHA workforce in Bengal to assessment cyclone harm

    The Ministry of Home Affairs on Sunday despatched a workforce of three officers to West Bengal to take inventory of the affect of Cyclone Yaas within the affected districts. The workforce is led by a Joint Secretary from the MHA and can keep within the state for 3 days.
    “The team has already left for Kolkata. Over the next two days it will meet key officials in the state and visit affected districts where it will meet the local people,” a ministry official mentioned.
    While skipping a cyclone assessment assembly chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Kalaikunda, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met him for quarter-hour and handed in an evaluation report during which she sought a reduction package deal of Rs20,000 crore for individuals in areas severely affected by the calamity.
    However, after surveying the harm in West Bengal and neighbouring Odisha, the PM introduced a reduction package deal of Rs1,000 crore for these two states in addition to Jharkhand, which was additionally affected by the cyclone.
    The growth comes amid rising stress between the Centre and the Mamata Banerjee authorities over the state’s former chief secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay skipping a assessment assembly referred to as by PM Narendra Modi on May 28.
    Since then, the Centre has issued a collection of orders and notices, which included one asking Bandopadhyay to report on central deputation a day earlier than his retirement and one other asking why motion shouldn’t be taken in opposition to him underneath the Disaster Management Act for arriving on the PM’s assembly quarter-hour late after which leaving instantly.

    Bandopadhyay, who selected retirement on May 31 in opposition to a three-month extension of service permitted by the Centre, has already replied to the DM Act discover despatched to him. The Ministry of Home Affairs is at present “studying” the reply and can take a call on it sooner or later, sources mentioned.
    In his reply, Bandyopadhyay informed the Central authorities that he was scheduled to go to the cyclone-affected areas and was following Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s order. Chief Secretary Hari Krishna Dwivedi, in the meantime, additionally wrote a letter to the Centre and defined why Bandyopadhyay reached quarter-hour late for the assembly and left instantly.

    “The ministry is studying the reply. If needed a legal opinion will also be sought. Accordingly, action will be initiated in due course,” an MHA official mentioned.
    Sources mentioned the ministry has choices to take administrative motion— a bit tough provided that Bandopadhyay has already retired— or statutory motion contemplating that the previous chief secretary has been accused of violating provisions of the Disaster Management Act.