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Bench wants water supply status
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high court green bench, comprising Chief Justice V.S. Sirpurkar and Justice Ashok
Ganguly, on Friday directed the state planning board to file a status report within
a fortnight on the supply of potable water in Calcutta and Howrah and elsewhere
in the state. ?The Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) and the Howrah Municipal
Corporation (HMC) will help the board prepare the comprehensive report,? the judges
ruled. The CMC has been asked to take steps against institutions and other establishments
that are not taking adequate measures to supply pure drinking water. The order
followed a petition by green activist Subhas Dutta, who had alleged that the water
supplied by the CMC and the HMC was unfit for human consumption. He submitted
test reports of water samples collected from the two cities to substantiate his
charges. MC lawyer Alok Ghosh argued that the authorities were supplying pure
water to customers, but some institutions and buildings were not storing it properly.
Swindler arrested
Acting on a plea by Rajasthan Police, cops from Jorasanko thana arrested Rakesh Sharma at 170, Rabindra Sarani late on Thursday on a charge of cheating. Sharma had purchased diamonds worth Rs 7 lakh from Johuri Bazar, Rajasthan. He had promised the traders there that he would pay the price after selling the diamonds in Calcutta. The traders waited for a month but did not get the money. They then contacted police. An officer said a team from Rajasthan will arrive soon to take Sharma in their custody.
Labourer death
Mohammed Afzal Sheikh, a 25-year-old contract labourer working on a Calcutta Municipal Corporation project on Lindsay Street, died on Friday afternoon after being trapped under a mound of mud. The mishap occurred around 2.30 pm. He was rescued by his colleagues and rushed to SSKM Hospital, where he died. Afzal was a resident of Malda.
Bus mishap
Reshmi Parwar and Papiya Dutta were seriously injured when the private bus (route 3B) they were travelling in lost control and hit the divider on Kidderpore Road on Friday afternoon. The two were taken to SSKM Hospital. The bus driver was arrested and the vehicle impounded.
Freight load
The South Eastern Railway (SER) had crossed the target of freight load in the 2004-05 fiscal. Officials said on Friday that the SER had loaded 73 million tonnes of freight, against the target of 71 million tonnes set by the Railway Board. Major commodities transported included iron ore, pig iron, coal, cement and petroleum products. The SER had earned Rs 3,000 crore as freight revenue, registering a growth of 12.6 per cent.
Varsity MoU
Calcutta University will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the state department of information & technology, Webel and Technable on April 4 on the College Street campus. University sources said the MoU was on voice-based BPO training, to be initially conducted in seven colleges.
Traffic education
The Calcutta State Transport Corporation on Saturday will conduct a daylong programme, Civic Traffic Education, to spread awareness about traffic management. Minister Subhas Chakraborty will inaugurate the programme.
Assault
Six members of the Federation of Trade Organisation (West Bengal chapter) were attacked by a group of youths in Baishnabghata, Jadavpur, on Friday.
Thumbs Up
To Calcutta Metropolitan Ladies circle 65 for sponsoring
the education of two blind children
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