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In the News (Sun 5 Jul 09)

  
  West Bengal 24 Parganas District
North 24 Parganas : A district with densely populated urban fringe of the metropolitan city of Calcutta with already built up city of Salt Lake and the up-coming New City at Rajarhat on one side and the remote riverine villages in the Sundarbans on the other has made the district rich in all activities.
South 24 Parganas : With urban fringe of the metropolitan city of Calcutta on one side and the remote riverine villages in the Sundarbans.
It lies just east of the Hooghly River and is part of the Calcutta urban agglomeration, lying 15 miles (24 km) north of Calcutta.
www.wb.nic.in /dist/parganas.html   (465 words)

  
 Ground arsenic contamination in West Bengal
status of South 24-Parganas district, one of the
South 24 Parganas is the southern most district of West Bengal covering an area of about 9960 sq.
Officially there are 2087 inhabited villages in South 24 Parganas district.
www.soesju.org /arsenic/wb4.htm   (319 words)

  
 Welcome to CGWB
In South 24 Parganas, Medinipur (EandW) and Haora districts specific conductance of ground water from deeper aquifers ranges between 1000-2000 mmho/cm at 250C and Cl value varies 50-300 mg/l.
In the coastal tract of Medinipur, South 24 Parganas and Haora districts the ground water is in general high chloride content in upper aquifer in Subarnarekha basin 8-100m, in Haldia area, Kasai basin 40-115m, in South 24 Parganas and Haora districts 20-150m depth range and higher specific conductance (>1500 mmho/cm at 250C).
Aquifers occurring in the depth span of 115 to 300m in Digha area, 125-300m in Haldia area and 170-350m in South 24 Parganas district are relatively fresher and chloride content of ground water is within permissible limit.
www.cgwber.nic.in /waterQuality.htm   (251 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Bengal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
He was confident that once the South 24-Parganas farm- ers come to know about the compensation that their Hooghly counterparts would be getting, they would part with their plots easily.
The Salim Group needs around 10,000 acres in South 24-Parganas — 2,500 acres for the Barasat-Raichak expressway, 3,750 acres for the Baruipur township and 1,500 acres at Bhangar for a health city, knowledge city and a township.
Many of the 22 CPM zonal committees in South 24-Parganas are believed to be opposed to the acquisition.
telegraphindia.com /1060812/asp/bengal/story_6602941.asp   (415 words)

  
 rediff.com:7 dacoits lynched in West Bengal
As many as seven dacoits were killed by an armed mob in Milanpur Bazar area of the South 24-Parganas district in West Bengal, early on Sunday morning.
District Superintendent of Police, South 24-Parganas, A K Maliwal, said his officers had rushed to the disturbed area.
Of late, lynching cases have assumed alarming proportions in South 24-Parganas district.
www.rediff.com /news/2000/jul/31cal.htm   (121 words)

  
 The Hindu : Transport strike hits life in W. Bengal
The six private transport operators' associations which participated in today's strike said they were forced to take this drastic step as vehicles were frequently damaged and torched and their drivers manhandled by vicious mobs in the recent past.
At least 24 vehicles were damaged by frenzied mobs in the past month, they said.
Another person died in Thakurpur area in South 24-Parganas and seven persons were injured in separate road accidents near Calcutta airport and Jadavpur.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/02/01/stories/0401226k.htm   (401 words)

  
 [Hunger Alert] INDIA: Entire village community neglected and facing starvation in West Bengal
In fact, despite promises of development in the South 24 Parganas District, 64 villages have yet to see improvements in their communities.
Vivek Kumar, the District Magistrate of 24 Parganas, reported that many schemes in the area have been instituted to develop all villages in the area.
Furthermore, I request that the situation in South 24 Parganas is monitored closely and that long-term steps be put in place to ensure that the villagers in the district can provide for their own livelihoods.
www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2005/1144   (1602 words)

  
 Teachers offer succour to arsenic victims-Kolkata-Cities-NEWS-The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
however, the public health department officials admit that for want of people's participation some of the arsenic projects in the state are lying in a bad shape, the latest example being the arsenic technology park at dhapdhapi at baruipur in south 24 parganas, one of the worst affected village in the state.
not only that, the team has successfully installed the device in 27 arsenic removal units(amal) in malda, nadia and north 24 parganas, the most arsenic prone districts in the state.
according to gupta, all the units set up in the arsenic affected malda, nadia and north 24 parganas districts have been running well because of the locals' involvement.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow.asp?art_Id=885217939   (654 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Usthi Foundation of India (UFI), a prominent voluntary organisation which provides free education, healthcare and food to over a thousand underprivileged children in North and South 24-Parganas, is planning to shift base from West Bengal to Orissa after serving here for more than two decades.
Founded in 1977 by a Swiss couple, Kurt and Edeltrud Buerki, and Milton McCann, UFI holds programmes revolving around education, community healthcare and imparting vocational training in South and North 24-Parganas.
It runs two free schools (one at Usthi in South 24-Parganas and another at Hudait in North 24-Parganas), a home for streetgirls at Bangur and a development project in the slums of Dakshindari, where it runs a hospital as well.
www.telegraphindia.com /1030209/asp/calcutta/story_1653678.asp   (369 words)

  
 Sanctuaries
Bibhutibhusan Wildlife Sanctuary in North 24 Parganas district has Spotted deer and is rich in common birds.
Narendrapur Wildlife Sanctuary in South 24 Parganas District is an Orchard Plantation which is rich insmaller birds, specially paradise fly catcher, Oriole etc.
Sajnekhali the gateway to the mighty Sunderbans in South 24 Parganas district is rich in interesting wildlife in its own right.
www.wildbengal.com /sanctuaries/others.htm   (241 words)

  
 Groundwater arsenic contamination in West Bengal
Sundarban area of the South 24 Parganas and small part of North 24 Parganas form the Deltaic zone.
These aquifers at depth to the south of the fan zone are hydraulically connected to the recharge zone and contain groundwater mildly affected by arsenic.
The maximum arsenic concentration (3700 µg/L) was found in Ramnagar village of GP Ramnagar II, Baruipur block, in South 24 Parganas district.
www.soesju.org /arsenic/wb.htm   (1278 words)

  
 Peaceful polling in West Bengal : HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Barring stray incidents including bursting of crackers near an election booth in the constituency of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya in Jadavpur, the polling was peaceful across North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas and Kolkata.
An EVM was destroyed at Tollygunge area in south Kolkata.
Polling in Bhatpara in North 24 Parganas has been deferred till mid-May following the death of a woman candidate of the Bahujan Samaj Party.
www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1684637,001302200002.htm   (502 words)

  
 INDIA: Alleged police inaction into dowry death of a woman
It is alleged that the victim was set fire to on 4 August 2006 and succumbed to her burn injuries on August 8.
It is alleged that Malati was died from the burn injuries suffered by her when her husband and in-laws set her on fire after pouring kerosene over her at her husband's house on 4 August 2006.
I am informed that Sunil has also lodged a complaint to Superintendent of Police, South 24 Parganas district on 23 August 2006 expressing his concerns in this case but is yet to get any response from the said officer regarding the progress of the investigation in this case.
www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2006/2055   (2306 words)

  
 UNICEF India - Nutrition - Mapping Nutrition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This is one of the ways in which our centre provides these non-literate women an incentive to ensure they don’t miss a feeding session,” says an officer of a local voluntary group.
This unique strategy is part of what is known as the Positive Deviance (PD) project, which covers 500 villages in state districts of Murshidabad, South 24 Parganas, Purulia and Dakhin Dinajpur.
By using colour coding, wherein the colour red indicates severe malnutrition, yellow the moderately malnourished and green normal, the maps show exactly how many children are in each household, and details their nutrition status.
www.unicef.org /india/nutrition_281.htm   (836 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
KOLKATA: Three youths were lynched in two separate incidents in North and South 24 Parganas districts of West Bengal on Monday, police said.
Two youths were lynched by a group of people at Agarpara in North 24 Parganas while they were trying to escape after snatching money from passengers of a train, police said.
Meanwhile, villagers lynched one youth at Choradakatia in Basanti area of South 24 Parganas district on the suspicion that he was member of a dacoit gang, police said.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/xml/uncomp/articleshow?msid=156022   (875 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
Official sources said five persons were killed in Murshidabad district and four in South 24 Parganas district, while two persons were killed in North 24 Parganas and one each in Jalpaiguri and Nadia districts.
Poll clashes occurred mostly in the districts of North 24 Parganas, Murshidabad, Midnapore, Malda, Hooghly, Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar and parts of South 24 Parganas.
At Khanarhat, near Barrackpore, a CPM supporter was murdered by Trinamool Congress activists while the father of a Trinamool candidate was killed in an attack by CPM workers near Barasat in North 24 Parganas district.
www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030512/main1.htm   (450 words)

  
 The Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It is on them to persuade farmers to give up 6,400 acres of land in North and South 24 Parganas districts for the Rs 44,000 crore project—an industrial park, an IT hub, knowledge and health cities and an 85-km highway—of Indonesia’s Salim group.
Nearly 50,000 of them gathered at a Trinamool Congress rally (an unprecedented number for an opposition rally) in Bhangar in South 24 Parganas in the first week of September where its leader Mamata Banerjee vowed to shed the last drop of blood to save them from eviction.
Surprisingly, echoing her sentiments was Abdur Rezzak Mollah, Marxist leader from Bhangar and land and land reforms minister in the Buddhadev cabinet.
www.the-week.com /25sep25/statescan_article3.htm   (695 words)

  
 Welcome to Alipore Sadar Subdivision, South 24 Parganas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Shri Utpal Mukherjee, Additional District Magistrate and Additional Executive Officer South 24 Parganas Zilla Parishad was present and made some very effective contribution.
Shri Dibyendu Sarkar, Sub divisional Officer, Alipore Sadar, South 24 Pgs.
Data requirement for planning - both family based and village-based was identified in the workshop.
www.sdoali.org /htmls/news_13_March_2002.htm   (451 words)

  
 Netguruindia News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
July 31: At least seven people were lynched by local people when they were trying to loot a shop at Bhangar in South 24 Parganas district on Monday, police said.
According to inspector general of Police (law and order) Prasun Mukherjee, some miscreants, who had looted a clothes shop on Sunday night, were caught on Monday with the looted material by the locals and consequently beaten to death.
It may be recalled that lynching cases have become a common feature in South 24-Parganas district.
www.netguruindia.com /news/Aug00/01/CAL3.html   (255 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Chandigarh Stories
Hafijul Molla, the 28-year-old don, whose area of operation is South 24 Parganas and in parts of Kolkata, had been hiding in the guise of a businessman, making brooms and selling these to retailers.
In West Bengal, he is accused in at least six cases of murder and three cases of dacoity (including a dacoity by his gang simultaneously at 17 houses), besides several cases of assault and rioting.
It is learnt that South 24 Parganas district is dominated by two rival gangs- one of the accused and other of Salim Laskar.
www.tribuneindia.com /2004/20041103/cth1.htm   (5394 words)

  
 Appeals: India: Floods - Oct 2005, ACT Appeal India: Assistance to flood affected people – ASIN54, Situation ...
Due to heavy rainfall between 10 and 18 September 2005 a vast area of Midnapore (East and West), 24 Parganas (South and North), North Dinajpur were affected by floods.
On 18 September a tidal wave of varying height between 6' to 15 ' caused further damage and destruction especially in 24 Parganas (South and North) and parts of Midnapore districts.
As a result a vast area of east and west Midnapore, North and South 24 Parganas, North Dinajpur, Hooghly and Burdwan have been seriously affected by flooding.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KKEE-6J8N4M?OpenDocument   (706 words)

  
 Deccan Herald News page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Several districts of West Bengal, especially Murshidabad, Nadia, North 24 Parganas, Burdwan, Birbhum, South 24 Parganas, are the resource base of 'traffickers'.
North and South 24 Parganas are adjacent to Kolkata which is the convenient transit point for traffickers who ship poor hapless girls from West Bengal as well as from Bangladesh for onward transfer to New Delhi, Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh and West Asia.
Swapan Mukherjee of the Centre for Community Development where he has been working for two decades, covering in Murshidabad, North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Nadia, Midnapore and Maldah districts, says trafficking and prostitution are the issues his project addresses.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/oct12/sl5.asp   (815 words)

  
 Calcutta Online - August 09 1998 news paper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Chakraborty from the North 24 Parganas district secretariat and decision of selecting district leadership through ballot in the Calcutta and North 24 Parganas district.
The chief minister and his government should not be allowed to bring it under a communal cloud, where the report's recommendations and analysis get buried under sinister allegations as this will cause tremendous damage to the democratic foundations of this country.
The problem is that the outside world's perception of south Asia is what the present war of speeches and skirmishes is really about.
www.netguruindia.com /news/aug98/n090898.html   (5707 words)

  
 Press Releases: India: Floods - Oct 2005, ACT Alert India 1/2005: West Bengal floods
The rains, triggered by a deep depression in the Bay of Bengal have wreaked havoc in East and West Midnapore and North and South 24 Parganas, North Dinaipur, Hooghly and Burdwan districts, causing massive damage to crops and property.
The most severely affected blocks are Pathar Pratima, Sagar, Sandeshkhali, Kakdip, Mathurapur, Namkhana in South 24 Parganas and Bongaon, Gaighata, Bagda of North 24 Parganas.
2,000 and 5,000 houses have been destroyed in South 24 Parganas and in North 24 Parganas respectively.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6HS3SL?OpenDocument   (728 words)

  
 The Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The land has been identified in North and South 24 Parganas districts and would be made available at the market price.
They have agreed to build a four-lane, 85km road connecting Barasat, the headquarters of North 24 Parganas close to the Kolkata airport, with Raichawk, an export promotion zone in South 24 Parganas.The Salim Group would also invest Rs 225 crore in a motor cycle factory in Howrah.
Besides, the Bakhri Group of Indonesia has agreed to invest Rs 100 crore in a coal mixing plant to be set up at Haldia in East Midnapore.
www.the-week.com /25sep18/currentevents_article4.htm   (921 words)

  
 [No title]
Profile of the project area: We want to start this intervention in remote rural area of Basanti Block under South 24-Parganas, district of West Bengal where illiteracy is rampant, superstition is supreme and poverty in the accepted fact of their daily livelihood.
Project-design/strategy: At the grass root/village level: At this level we have to formed Community Organizations as cluster of village/Mahila Samity in 30 villages under Basanti Block of South 24-Parganas District of West Bengal.
The community organizer will preliminarily detect the high-risk mother and children through home visit and person-to-person communication method and she will also conduct group discussion to identify the rural need of the community people.
www.ashanet.org /projects-new/documents/43/Health-Big.doc   (1964 words)

  
 ACT Appeals
Due to heavy rainfall 10 - 18 September 2005 a vast area of Midnapore (East and West), 24 Parganas (South and North) and North Dinajpur were affected by floods.
A further low pressure over south-west and west-central Bay of Bengal, off Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh has resulted in incessant heavy rains since 18 October causing severe flooding in east and west Midnapore, North and South 24 Parganas, North Dinajpur, Hooghly and Burdwan.
About 2,200,000 people have been seriously affected in South Bengal of whom about 1,900,000 belong to East and West Midnapore districts.
www.act-intl.org /appeals/appeals_2005/ASIN54-sum.html   (344 words)

  
 North 24 Parganas district - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
North 24 Parganas is a district of West Bengal, India.
This district is also written as 24 Parganas(North).
Everything about the district of North 24 Parganas- a really good site
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_24_Parganas   (231 words)

  
 Welcome to Alipore Sadar Subdivision, South 24 Parganas
Welcome to Alipore Sadar Subdivision, South 24 Parganas
Hence, instead of attempting a 'Profile' of the Sub-division as such we present a brief profile of the district of South 24
Parganas as a whole and the individual profiles of 5 constituent Blocks.
www.sdoali.org /htmls/profile.htm   (236 words)

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