WBPSC Prelims and Mains Notes-WBPSC Test Series
WEST BENGAL Assign specific drivers for a bus: West Bengal The state transport department is making bus drivers more accountable and bringing in certain changes in the certificate of fitness (CF) and permit conditions. The transport department and Kolkata Police are also making each bus driver-specific so that accountability could be fixed. Kolkata Police is procuring … Read more
WEST BENGAL West Bengal’s Chilkigarh to be declared ‘National Bio-Diversity Heritage Site’ A forested stretch around Chilkigarh’s Kanak Durga temple in Jhargram district of West Bengal will soon be declared a national bio-diversity heritage site by the government. The popular tourist destination will be labelled a ‘plastic free zone’ and 61 acres of forest area … Read more
RAJASTHAN AICTE lauds Rajasthan’s ranking system for engineering colleges Rajasthan Technical University’s (RTU) system of ranking its engineering colleges on a scale of 1000 points has won praise from the All India Council for Technical Education(AICTE), the body governing all technical institutes in the country. AICTE has sought details of the system after which it … Read more
WEST BENGAL West Bengal to lease land for football centre to AIFF for Rs 1 The West Bengal cabinet decided to provide a 15 acre land to the All India Football Federation on lease for Rs 1 to help set up the National Centre of Excellence. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had promised AIFF president Praful Patel to provide the land … Read more
WEST BENGAL Over 24 lakh cases pending in courts of West Bengal There were around 24,18,374 cases pending at various courts of West Bengal including the Calcutta high court till June last year, state law minister Moloy Ghatak said at the assembly. The minister informed the House that out of the 17,17,741 cases pending at different … Read more
WEST BENGAL Kolkata to get real-time pollution study devices The World Bank will fund the environment department’s multipoint real-time air quality monitoring system and the methods to counter pollution. Apart from a few stationary air-quality monitoring devices, around 10 others mounted on government buses will generate area-specific real-time air quality data. This information … Read more