Burdwan 'Best District' in West Bengal for empowerment of The Disabled

Burdwan District Magistrate Saumitra Mohan said that West Bengal Governor Keshri Nath Tripathy gave the state award for Best District to Burdwan for its excellent feat towards empowerment of persons with disabilities on 'World Disability Day' on December 3.

   

Mohan informed that 26 Disability Camps have been held in 23 blocks of the district so far and 10 more would be held in the district by December this year.

   

Around 14,814 persons have attended the camps where 9,412 persons have been screened and 7,233 persons reviewed and/or issued Disability Certificate and Identity Cards, the District Magistrate said on Friday.

  

Regular Camps are being organized by Block Medical Officer Health (BMOH) at the PHC level.

   

He said the district administration issued over 650 Legal Guardianship Certificates till date and has set a target of 1000 by March 2015.

    

Mohan said Burdwan district has a quota of 3253 Disability pension which has been exhausted as the district administration has sanctioned 3253 Disability pension to 3253 persons.

    

The Disability pension are being disbursed through bank accounts only from April 2014 to ensure legitimate beneficiaries get the pension, he said adding that the district administration has requested the state government to enhance the district's quota of Disability pension.

     

On Disability Scholarship of Rs 300 which are given to disabled school students, he said the district has also exhausted its quota of 430 Disability Scholarship as same number of scholarship are being to disabled students.

     

A fully operational District Disability Rehabilitation Centre has come up at 'Bankura More' of Burdwan town, the DM said.

     

He said around 131 Prosthetic Aids were distributed this year in the district among disabled persons.

Source: Chhattisgarh Hindi News and MP Hindi News

NIA announces cash reward for information on absconders in Burdwan blast case

A cash reward of ten lakh rupees each against five absconders, five lakh rupees each for three accused and three lakh rupees for the remaining four suspects has been announced by the NIA.

All of them are alleged to be associated with banned terror outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). They were reportedly conspiring to target installations in Bangladesh.

The NIA has sought general public's co-operation to apprehending them. Anyone can inform either on phone or on e-mail about their location and movement.
It said the identity of the informers shall be kept secret.


A bomb explosion took place inside a house in West Bengal's Birbhum district Wednesday, seriously injuring three people. Police came to know about the incident after the hospital authorities informed them about the injured.

"We have detained three people, including a woman, who carried the three injured to the hospital. The condition of the all the three is critical.” informed a senior police official.

“In the preliminary investigation it appears they were injured while making bombs," a police officer said.

Since the October 2 explosion in Khagragarh in Burdwan district in which two suspected Bangladeshi militants were killed, there have been several incidents of crude bombs going off or being seized by police from several districts of the state.

Source: MP News in Hindi and Chhattisgarh Hindi News

Jalpaiguri bifurcated, Bengal to get its 20th district

Aimed at expediting government services, West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district is being bifurcated to create a new district of Alipurduar, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday. 

Announcing the decision in the state assembly, Banerjee said the state's 20th district will come into existence June 25. While the Jalpaiguri Sadar and Mal Bazar subdivisions will continue to be in Jalpaiguri district, the Alipurduar subdivision will be carved out to be a new district. 

Of the 17 excising police stations, nine will remain in Jalpaiguri while the other eight will now be under the new district of Alipurduar. Banerjee said that the bifurcation of the district was a long standing demand of people of the district. "Being far from the district headquarters, people faced delays in delivery of government services. 

They had to spend a considerable time in coming to district headquarters. The bifurcation will help the people of the district," she said. 

Source: Hindi Samachar