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Kolkata Constable killed for protesting against eveteasing Even after four days Kolkata police have not been able to arrest anyone. The police Deputy Commissioner (airport) isn't even aware of such an incident.

[studdmanster]

constable moreche not commisner...thats why the police Deputy Commissioner (airport) isn't aware of such an incident.

[Suncity]

Originally Posted by studdmanster

constable moreche not commisner...thats why the police Deputy Commissioner (airport) isn't aware of such an incident.

It could be "sajano ghatona" as well and a conspiracy by dusht opposition who are out to malign the government.

[studdmanster]

Originally Posted by Suncity

It could be "sajano ghatona" as well and a conspiracy by dusht opposition who are out to malign the government.

...will be eager to know what has 'Sajano banerjee's' comment on this issue..

[Suncity]

Originally Posted by studdmanster

Yep...the best preformance by "bidya madam"...also the movie has been shot completely in Kol..esp South Kol (between Triangular Park & Kalighat)...also rest of Kol can be seen in snaps in the song "Ami Sotti Bolchi"...and yes a loads of Tolly Stars from Param to Neel....its a must watch even from my side....

Besh bhalo hoyeche. A must watch - preferably on big screen.

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Indian Railways' cash reserve fell from Rs.13,431 crore to Rs.75 lakh under Mamata Banerjee

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/r.../1/177465.html

The long march from railway minister to the chief minister of West Bengal also signalled how the Indian Railways, in one short hop, descended into financial chaos and utter neglect.

The firebrand leader literally left the railways in a state of financial meltdown as from Rs.13,431 crore in 2008 its cash reserve fell to a paltry Rs.75 lakh in 2011.

That means, between 2008 and 2010, railways lost a whopping Rs.552 crore every month on an average of Rs.18 crore per day.

A downward spiral that began towards the end of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav's tenure as the railway minister accelerated when Banerjee took charge. The decline under her perhaps could be touted as the biggest fall in finances for the railways since Independence.

From lack of cost rationalisation and refusal to increase passenger fares in three consecutive railway budgets Banerjee presented to indulging in mindless political shenanigans by announcing trains for Bengal and setting up of factories, her decisions paved the way for the railway's derailment.

As railway minister Banerjee even changed the colour of railway stations across Bengal to green, which benefited none but cost the exchequer.

Misplaced ideologies to not delivering on promises, in her own land Banerjee is now a pale picture of the promised poribartan maker.

In August 2009 then railway minister Banerjee promised a Metro coach factory at Singur to compensate the demise of Tata's Nano car dream project. Till date, a barren piece of land stands testimony to that empty promise. There were three other projects for railway factories that still lie unexecuted.

In Jammu and Kashmir, the 126 km rail link from Katra in Jammu to Qazigund, leading to the Kashmir Valley, finds itself in a mess that might take another 10 years to get sorted. The route lies littered with tunnel collapses, slope failures and bureaucratic roadblocks.

To be fair, Banerjee cannot be held solely responsible for the demise of the Indian Railways. She merely holds the tag of being the latest nail on the rail coffin and the way things are, the 159-year-old ailing giant might not need any more Mamata Banerjee to sink underground for ever.

[roy2010]

Originally Posted by Suncity

Indian Railways' cash reserve fell from Rs.13,431 crore to Rs.75 lakh under Mamata Banerjee

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/r.../1/177465.html

the article is purely a political vendetta, very hard to find any logic or any financial information in it. how come renaming of stations could be related to railway finance, very difficult to understand. and his fascination towards only cash reserve indicate which school of thought ha has come from.

The face of poribartan (change) in Bengal would now forever be etched in public memory as the face that brought about the ruin of Indian Railways. The firebrand leader literally left the railways in a state of financial meltdown as from Rs.13,431 crore in 2008 its cash reserve fell to a paltry Rs.75 lakh in 2011.

That means, between 2008 and 2010, railways lost a whopping Rs.552 crore every month on an average of Rs.18 crore per day

is the balance sheet so simple? i don't know . but i know that even a grocery shop owner maintains and understands more elaborate balance sheet.
i am not saying that MB preformed very well as RM. but with a simple example of cash reserve, how the writer could write such lengthy article with such language is really interesting. yes, i think only at one point he was right that passenger fares were not increased, it should be at least four to five times of the present rate i believe. maybe revenue generation has not increased at that rate, but what about capital expenditures, high input costs and recession. i appreciate the PM and other think tank who advised, encouraged and directed the govt and PSU organizations to go heavily for expansion during to fight biggest recession after 1930 while private cos are reluctant for capex....

all in all i want to say that the 'writer' could have given us more elaborate info on financial results and less political lectures. he should also know that a govt or psu organization can not sit idle on cash reserve. it is unethical, agaist the guidelines and policies of economy. we also should know about other blue chip private and govt cos, their debt position and cash reserve etc... it may be so that almost all the big names in the private or govt sector are on the brink of 'demise'( according to the writer)

disclaimer: i have little or no gyan on financial matters, would be happy if someone could enlighten/ correct me on railway's financial position

[Suncity]

Originally Posted by roy2010

the article is purely a political vendetta, very hard to find any logic or any financial information in it.

Maybe it is all BS. Media can twist stuff.

Anyway I read another article (sad story of the state of affairs of IR) where the author brackets Didi with Ram Vilas Paswan:

Successive railway ministers in the past two decades, most notably Mamata Banerjee and Ram Vilas Paswan have driven the Railways to rack and ruin

Plus many of the grand projects are not doing too well as per the article here.

There is a big gap between what Didi claims to have implemented and actual implementation.

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Govt lawyer skips, CID gets short custody

http://www.telegraphindia.com/112031...y_15243460.jsp

CID had to accept a shorter custody of two persons arrested for the murders of a couple of CPM leaders because the government lawyer did not turn up in court today to present the agency’s case.

The lawyer who was supposed to represent the CID, deputy director of prosecution Nupur Das Agarwal, said she could not come to court because of her “son’s illness”. “But I had asked additional public prosecutor Shampa Baij Mitra to handle all police cases on my behalf,” she said.

Lawyers said Baij Mitra left the court “45 minutes before the CID case came up for hearing around 4.15pm”. She was not available for comment.

Other lawyers at the court expressed surprise at the absence of a government pleader during “such an important case”.

The CPM said the absence of a government lawyer was “a serious lapse”. “A government lawyer’s duty is to defend the government. But the additional public prosecutor remained absent. Strong action should be taken against the APP,” said Amal Haldar, the district CPM secretary.

Trinamul claimed Roy and Ghosh were party supporters. Rabin Nandi, the Trinamul general secretary of Burdwan block-I, said: “They are active supporters of our party. The CPM has made false accusations against them. We have faith in the law. Let the law take its own course.”

The CID, which was handed the case by Calcutta High Court two weeks ago after it found the police probe unsatisfactory, did not seek the custody of the four because according to rules, police custody can’t be sought in a murder case 14 days after the court order. The CID had got charge of the case on the twelfth day of the 14-day custody.

Minister talks tough, but cop killers still free

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...w/12241590.cms

The murderers of a Kolkata Police constable continue to roam free four days after they attacked him and a day after he died in hospital despite several witnesses identifying them as local youths and the cop's family naming them in the FIR.

On Monday, just over 24 hours after Asim Kumar Dam had succumbed to injuries sustained during a brutal attack by drunken youths who barged into his Birati home on Holi and tried to molest his 22-year-old niece, the city's custodians of law and governance seemed more interested in scoring political points than nabbing the culprits. State transport minister Madan Mitra visited Dam's family in the morning and pinned the blame on goons backed by the CPM.

But his assurance of stern action, close on the heels of a similar pledge by Cabinet colleague and local MLA Chandrima Bhattacharya the previous night, rang hollow as police continued to grope in the dark. Though some local youths were detained, the hunt for the culprits made little headway.

Local residents and Dam's family members said on Monday the seven accused of the murder - brothers Abhijit, Jabar and Biswajit Ghosh, Tapan Chandra, Panka Dutta, Debu Mukherjee and Kuntal Chakraborty - were seen in the locality till Saturday.

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Mamata Banerjee's brainwave of 'job for land' can stall a railway project

http://articles.economictimes.indiat...ailway-project

The best laid plans of mice, men and ministers go astray in strange ways. As railway minister and critic of land acquisition policies of the Left in Bengal, Mamata Banerjee thought she'd come up with a great idea to get people to part with land and be glad about it.

Banerjee's brainwave was to offer a permanent job - in the railways, where else? - to one member of every family whose land was to be acquired. The job was the sweetener, families whose land was to be acquired would, of course, get the market price for their real estate.
Now that she's out of the rail ministry and learning the ropes of ruling Bengal, her successor at the ministry is staring at the downside of the Banerjee brainwave. At the heart of the problem is a 19 km stretch of rail track to be laid between two places in West Bengal's Hooghly district.

Rail minister Dinesh Trivedi is a Trinamool man, so he has to hew to his leader's formula for land acquisition. The trouble is that even with one job per family that's giving up land, there's such a crowd in this fertile part of the state that Trivedi will have to find permanent jobs for 2,300 people.

For just one 19 km of newly laid track. The way things are supposed to be done, each of these jobs will have to be a Grade C post, which means that each candidate will start with a salary of a little more thanRs 10,000 per month.

The government can probably afford the money, but the catch is how to employ so many people productively. As it is, experts estimate the Railways' surplus manpower in the hundreds of thousands.

The Railways reckons that it'll need only about 800 new workers to run this sector, the rest will have little or nothing to do. Will Trivedi go with Banerjee's brainwave? Or will he stop the project in its tracks?

[Sumanb]

800 new workers for a mere 19 km of track? That itself is a very bloated number.

[Suncity]

Originally Posted by Sumanb

800 new workers for a mere 19 km of track? That itself is a very bloated number.

You have to give it to Didi. This is an excellent scheme to generate employment.

[Suncity]

Didi blames CPM for controlling cooperative banks and putting up posters to take away land of loan defaulting farmers. She says that this is "against laws" and FIRs will be filed. On the other hand a TMC leader and chairman of the Tamluk coop and dev bank - Nikunja Manna claims that 110 of the 115 board members of the "accused" cooperative bank are TMC members. Also he claims that the notice to take away land of long time loan defaulters is as per the law.

[niljee]

Originally Posted by Suncity

Didi blames CPM for controlling cooperative banks and putting up posters to take away land of loan defaulting farmers. She says that this is "against laws" and FIRs will be filed. On the other hand a TMC leader and chairman of the Tamluk coop and dev bank - Nikunja Manna claims that 110 of the 115 board members of the "accused" cooperative bank are TMC members. Also he claims that the notice to take away land of long time loan defaulters is as per the law.

I dont understand why she is always this agitated, even after assuming complete power in West Bengal. Who is she up against? What more does she want as a "firebrand leader"? The post of the PM?

[Sumanb]

She has played the role of irresponsible opposition leader for too long ...... old habit die hard.

Frankly, she is going too much with her 'data'.

[Suncity]

Originally Posted by niljee

I dont understand why she is always this agitated, even after assuming complete power in West Bengal. Who is she up against? What more does she want as a "firebrand leader"? The post of the PM?

Only Didi knows what she wants. She has strange ways. Her latest diktat on cooperative banks doesn't make business sense other than bankrupting banks. However it does make vote bank sense.

I think it is bonanza time for citizens of West Bengal.

This is the time for all farmers to take loans and not return anything. Didi will take care of it by forgiving loans. Similarly all people who do not own property should capture any available land along roads and railway tracks and Didi will take care of them too by awarding them compensation, jobs and free housing. The commies only talked about giving such lavish facilities to the people. Didi is actually implementing them!

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West Bengal State Cooperative Bank criticises government stance on mortgaged properties

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...w/12250440.cms

The West Bengal State Cooperative Bank (WBSCB) today criticised the stance taken by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that mortgaged properties of defaulters could not be attached by lenders.

"This is a very serious issue and if the mortgaged properties of the willful defaulters are not attached, then the entire cooperative structure in the state will collapse," WBSCB Chairman Ashok Bandopadhyay told reporters here.

The chief minister had said yesterday that properties of defaulters who had taken loan from the cooperative system could not be attached and necessary amendments would be made to the West Bengal Co-operative Societies Act of 2006.

Bandopadhyay said that it was not the 2006 legislation but provision of sale of mortgaged properties by a cooperative bank was first introduced through the Bengal Public Demand Recovery Act of 1913.

He said cooperative banks give loans of Rs 10,000 to small and marginal farmers.

For the comparatively well off farmers having landed property, cooperative banks extend credit of Rs 1.5 lakh.

"It is not marginal or small farmers who default on loans. But those who have taken higher loans are usually wilful defaulters," he said.

Unless recovery was made through the attachment route, then there would be more defaults and the entire structure would collapse.

"I earnestly appeal to the chief minister not to amend the legislation in the interest of the cooperative system," he said.

Bandopadhyay said that 50 per cent of the aggregate loans disbursed were given from the bank's own deposit base, while the balance was provided by Nabard.

He said in case of non-realisation of outstandings, the banks would not be able to repay depositors as well as Nabard.

"In that case, Nabard re-finance to the cooperative banks will dry up," he noted.

Bandopadhyay said that he had already written to the Chief Minister and would also communicate the matter to chairmen of Nabard and State Level Banking Committee (SLBC) soon.

During the current financial year, loans disbursements by the cooperative banks to agriculture and allied sectors would be around Rs 5500 crore.

[Suncity]

The housing census for 2011 is out and West Bengal doesn't fare well. It covers the decade 2001-2011. Yet another proof how the CPM lost the plot despite trying to "catch up" during the Buddha regime. Wil post some data later.

[Suncity]

sad state of affairs from the 2011 census:

The next time Karat and Co criticize UPA policies, they need to shut up and look at their own policies which have now made West Bengal a drag on India's progress.

% of House holds owning TV:

India under UPA 47.2
West Bengal under CPM - 35

% of Households owning mobile phones

India under UPA - 53.2
West Bengal under CPM - 42.9

% of households owning cars/jeep

India under UPA 4.7
West Bengal under CPM 2.2

% of households owning scooters/motorcycles/mopeds

India under UPA 21
West Bengal under CPM 8.5

% of households having access to electricity

India under UPA 67.2
West Bengal under CPM 54.5

% of households having bathrooms (bathing facility)

India under UPA 42
West Bengal under CPM 27.1

% of households having latrines

India under UPA 46.9
West Bengal under CPM 58.9

% of households availing banking services

India under UPA 58.7
West Bengal under CPM 48.8

% of households having computers/laptops

India under UPA 9.5
West Bengal under CPM 8.3

[murlee]

Sun.. the link for the above data plz..