THE STATE THIS WEEK
PM Modi got invitation from Mamata Banerjee to next year's Bengal business summit
Mamata Banerjee met PM Narendra Modi in Delhi on Wednesday to invite Modi to next year's Bengal Global Business Summit to inaugurate the BGBC next April. Mamata Banerjee also raised some political and controversial administrative issues while making it clear that Trinamool-BJP politics should not affect Bengal's growth and development.
CM demanded that the central government could reduce the BSF's increased area of jurisdiction in the India-Bangladesh border. Also requested to see that there was no repetition of the violence in Tripura.
She said that,
"whatever differenced you and I may have politically should not impact our state's relations with the centre."
CM wants to depict that this Business summit is beyond the political perspective. The development of the state is the development of the centre. About the business summit, she said, "The PM has accepted our invite."
After 21 months of COVID break, Kolkata Metro tokens are back
Metro Railways brings back old token systems from Thursday 25th November and registered a 15,405 rise in passenger count. This proves that there was high demand for single-travel tickets. 33K tokens sold on day 1. Maintaining COVID protocol, the tokens are going to be sanitized in the smartest and safest way for reuse.
Before the lockdown in March 2020, the metro tokens were washed with water and disinfectants and detergents after use, and because of these installed chips are damaged. This time, Metro Railways bought 40hi-tech ultraviolet sterilizers; this is much more effective in killing germs and does not affect the chips as well.
Metro Officials said that, in the coming weeks, the sale of tokens was expected to rise to 60,000 or 70,000 per day as more and more people gradually know about the circulations.
Trinamool Congress's strategy about party's position in Parliament
TMC has called a working committee meeting in Kalighat on Monday, where Mamata Banerjee touched the lineation of the party's position in Parliament on several issues. Party leaders made it clear that it was not going to play a "second fiddle" to Congress in Parliament and would pursue its own anti-BJP format.
Mamata Banerjee had been vocal on farm law repeal. She also mentioned giving compensation to those farmers who died during the farm stir and prosecution of those who are responsible for the Lakhimpur Kheri deaths. They will also question the Pegasus and BSF's increased jurisdiction on the border.
A senior Trinamool MP said, "TMC's stand is very clear on the issues proposed to be discussed in parliament, irrespective of what other parties do. We will stick to our position."
Postponed Kolkata Municipal Corporation polls on December 19
Election Commission announced all COVID restrictions during the recently concluded assembly by-polls would be followed for the civic polls as well, the state election commission said, between 7 pm and 10 am big gatherings and rallies will not be allowed in the city. A maximum of 5 people can participate in a door-to-door campaign. The KMC notification did not specify any vote counting date.
Women outnumber men in getting COVID jabs
More women received COVID shots than men in Bengal, which has a gender ratio of 950 females to 1000 males. On Thursday, West Bengal crossed the 9-crore milestone of COVID vaccination in the state, the gender split among the recipients was nearly even. However, by Friday afternoon, the scales expanded in favour of women who accounted for 4, 53, 48,357 jabs against 4, 52, 55,185 doses administered to men. There are 93,000+ differences in doses between the two genders.
The trend of women taking the lead in vaccination is encouraging for the future when children's vaccines are introduced said to State Health officials.
The state family welfare officer Ashim Das said,
"This shows women are more sincere and particular in taking the vaccine doses on time. A section of men is defaulting on the second dose."
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Debomita Dey
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