The state government is considering taking the Covid-19 vaccination drive to big housing complexes and corporate houses so that more people can be inoculated against the disease that is spreading much faster than it did at the peak of the epidemic last year.
The state health department on Monday met representatives of several private hospitals to discuss how off-site vaccination could be done in Calcutta.
Till now in Bengal, Covid-19 vaccines are given only at designated hospitals and clinics, including those run by the Calcutta Municipal Corporation and other civic bodies.
Private hospitals as well as the health department are flooded with requests from big residential complexes and corporate houses to conduct vaccination on their premises.
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Bengal future investment destination of the world: Mamata Banerjee
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Last Updated: Feb 08, 2021, 10:12 PM IST
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Synopsis Bengal is the destination of the whole world for investment and employment, she said, inaugurating a programme of the West Bengal Youth and Sports Department at Netaji Indoor Stadium here. A proposal of Rs 62,000-crore investment for Jangalmahal Industrial Town at Raghunathpur in Purulia has come forward, Banerjee said.
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She said 1.5 crore jobs will be created in the state over the next five years, maintaining that an equal number of employment opportunities have already been provided to people.
KOLKATA: Asserting that West Bengal is the future investment destination of the world, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced a host of infrastructure projects, which will entail investments to the tune of Rs 72,000 crore and provide jobs to 3.29 lakh people . She said 1.5 crore jobs will be created in the state over the next five