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The residents, whose houses were razed by the Bathinda Development Authority (BDA) during a demolition drive at Dhobiana Basti on Friday, carried out a protest march in the city today.
Toughening its stance over alleged encroachments alongside the Ring Road area, officials of the Bathinda Development Authority (BDA) accompanied by heavy police force conducted a demolition drive at 5 am on Friday. Many houses were razed in the Dhobhiana Basti area amid heavy rain during the drive.
Bathinda, December 29
Citing delay in being provided with compensation for “loss of work” after cotton crop damage due to pink bollworm attack this season, members of the Punjab Khet Mazd
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee at a press conference at Nabanna on June 28; (ANI Photo)
There’s a sense of urgent purpose in the way Mamata Banerjee is approaching her new term in office. Two months into her third term on the trot, the West Bengal chief minister has already rolled out several initiatives the Trinamool Congress (TMC) had promised in its poll manifesto.
These include new welfare projects, including ‘duare ration’, to deliver rations to people’s doorsteps; ‘lokkhir bhandar’, which gives housewives Rs 6,000 in annual support payments (Rs 12,000 for women from SC/ ST communities); a Rs 10 lakh credit line for students seeking higher education; and ‘duare tran’, to deliver relief payments to victims of cyclone Yaas. These follow the template of the ‘duare sarkar’ programme her government ran before the assembly election, to improve delivery of government services by cutting out middlemen and thereby reducing corruptio