Get latest news from West Bengal - Top headlines, west Bengal local news, politics news, business, sports, entertainment, technology, videos and pictures.
The Economic Times newspaper has reported that the plans include the establishment of a grinding plant in West Bengal and a second new plant with an associated quarry in northern Assam. Purvanchal Cement operates the 0.5Mt/yr Kamrup grinding plant in Assam. Published in Global Cement News Read...
In the Gangetic flood plain of West Bengal, wetlands are used for multiple purposes, and have significant role in the livelihoods of the local people. Over the years, these Multiple Use Systems (MUS) are getting converted to single use systems due to economic and social pressure from dominant...
BengalindustryTata steelsCalcuttaKolkatanineteenth and early twentieth centuriesIndian independence movementWest BengalWhen British dominated, the East India Company cemented its hold on the region following the Battle of Plassey in 1757, and the city of Calcutta (Present-day KSocial Science Electronic ...
Employment and Socio-Economic Status of Scheduled Caste Population in West Bengal The present paper is an attempt to analyze employment opportunities for scheduled castes (SC) population, the extent in the levels of socio-economic development and the relationship between employment and level of developm...
The growth of labour productivity also adversely affects the employment elasticity of output in West Bengal.Das, PinakiPandit, AsitDas, Pinaki and Pandit, Asit (2016), `Economic Growth and Growth of Employment in West Bengal', International Journal of Research in Economics and Social ...
(2008): "Economic Valuation of a Wetland in West Bengal, India", in the proceedings of the IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Program's Seventh Annual Partners' Meet, "Managing Water in the Face of Growing Scarcity, Inequity and Declining Returns: Exploring Fresh Approaches", ICRISAT Campus, Pa...
efom in West Bengal Strategy for Economic Refom in West BengalStrategy for Economic Refom in West BengalBanerjee, AbhijitBradhan, PranabBasu, KaushikRay, Debraj
Forest cover in the hill regions is essential to maintain environmental, economic and ecological balances. North Bengal accounts for 3,086 sq km (26 %) of the 11,876 sq km area of classified forests in the state, and for nearly 5,000 sq km (40 %) of all land under tree cover. Khum...
Social Aspects of the Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water; A Review of Knowledge and Practice in Bangladesh and West Bengal This report describes briefly the state of present knowledge of the social and socio-economic aspects of arsenic contamination of groundwater used for dome... S Hanchett ...