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CPI(M) condemns Trinamool attack on party MLA, local leaders
Kolkata, July 27: The CPI(M) on Monday condemned attacks on four of its local leaders, including an MLA, in South 24 Parganas district and alleged the Trinamool Congress had not desisted from the path of violence though its leader Mamata Banerjee had asked them to be polite. Bose said the CPI(M) would organise protest-rallies across the state against Trinamool Congress` "ulterior motive to create anarchy". The police said MLA Shyamal Naskar, CPI(M) zonal secretary Kajal Dey and two local leaders Tapan Bhattacharya and Sushanta Ghosh were severely beaten up and the windshields of their car smashed by some attackers at Chanditala More at Sonarpur. Naskar later accused the Trinamool Congress of attacking them and said it was pre-meditated to scare Left Front activists in the area. The attack came after a meeting of the CPI(M) expressed concern at price rise and alleged lawlessness in the area. While Bhattacharya and Ghosh were taken to hospital, Naskar and Dey went to Sonarpur police station to file an FIR and named some Trinamool activists for the attack. Bureau Report |
TIMES OF INDIA: CPM MLA, five others beaten up
TNN, Jul 27, 2009, 05.06am IST
SONARPUR: Six CPM supporters, including MLA Shyamal Naskar, party zonal secretary Kajal Dey and zonal member Susanta Ghosh, were injured on Sunday night when they were attacked allegedly by Trinamool supporters in Sonarpur. They were returning home after a meeting at Sonarpur More when the incident occurred.They alleged that a few weeks ago, some CPM men had been driven out of the locality by Trinamool activists and that they haven't been able to return since. The meeting on Sunday night was organised to bring those CPM workers back to their homes.The party leaders later lodged a complaint at Sonarpur police station. A Trinamool spokesman later said those who had been driven out of the area are CPM-backed goons and his party would not allow them in the locality.
PRESS NOTE on WEBEL ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY PARK, SONARPUR
February 25th 2011
Department of Information Technology
Government of West Bengal
Press Note
WEBEL ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY PARK, SONARPUR
THE EMERGING DESTINATION FOR ELECTRONICS, TELECOMMUNICATION AND RENEWABLE ENERGY INDUSTRIES
Inaugurated today, the 25th day of February 2011, by Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Hon’ble Chief Minister, West Bengal, in the presence of Shri Kanti Ganguly, Hon’ble MIC Sunderban Development Affairs and Sports & Youth Services, Govt. of West Bengal AND Dr. Debesh Das, Hon’ble MIC, Department of IT & BT, Govt. of West Bengal
BACKGROUND :
West Bengal has witnessed phenomenal growth in the IT and ITeS Sector during the last four/ five years. The spur in the growth is mainly scripted by leaps in software production and export. Presently, around 1, 05, 000 people is under direct employment in this sector, with export hovering around Rs.6500 crore.
This spiraling growth trajectory has propelled the state govt. to move up the value chain and cut a niche in the high end hardware manufacturing industry. This new direction in the focus is not only aimed at employment generation but also underlines the importance in making us self reliant in the widely expanding hardware market, growing at a rate of 12-15% per annum.
With this end in view, an incubation centre for chip design with entire eco-system has been set up at the Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur. IT Department has recently formulated the Hardware policy which has widened the connotation of ‘Hardware` by bringing Tele-communication and solar-Energy equipments within its fold and offered sops for hardware companies. Sonarpur Electronics Park is yet another milestone in our journey to achieve the cherished goal to attend reckoning position in hardware sector.
STARTING OF THE PROJECT :
1) Webel which when established started with the intention of promoting hardware industries wrote to the IT Department on 6.09.2010 for their plan to have an electronics park at an eleven acres land at Sonarpur.
2) IT Department approved the plan subsequently.
THE PROJECT:
• SITE
WBEIDCL intends to establish the Electronics Industry Park on Dwarir Road at Mouza – Jagaddal, P.S. Sonarpur, Dist. South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, which is only 45 minutes drive from the heart of the city, 90 minutes from the Kolkata Airport and only 15 minutes drive from the Garia Station of the Kolkata Metro Railway and also the Eastern Rail, by way of providing land and infrastructural facility to the prospective industries / entrepreneurs.
Location:
Latitude – 22.4151645N, Longitude - 88.3968544E
Distance from Kolkata Airport – 30 km
Distance from Howrah Station – 23 km
Distance from Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Road (Garia to Baruipur) – 2 km
(starting from Chowhati crossing on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Road)
Distance from in-construction Expressway from Garia to Amtala – 1.2 km
Sonarpur being traditionally enriched with human resources, infrastructural facility, proximity with city etc., now further enjoys the proximity of Engineering Colleges, Academic Institutions, Expressways etc.
The project will be the state-of-the-art standard Electronics Industry Park with adequate infrastructural facilities for establishment of Electronics & Telecommunication and Renewable Energy devices / components manufacturing industries.
LAND USE
A) Building - 40%
B) Roads - 15%
C) Service Areas, ie. Power. - 15% Water Supply etc. utilities
D) Open Area - 30%
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100% LAND PROCUREMENT DETAILS:
1) The prospective industries visited several available plots in and around Kolkata and finally selected this land. The demised land belonged to a closed brick field. If brick field can be reckoned as industry, then it is a case of utilizing industrial land for the promotion of industry
2) To maintain transparency and legality in the total process, a reputed Law Firm, Fox & Mondal has been engaged by Webel for proper guidance in procuring the said land
3) The concerned authorities, (BLRO Office and local municipality) were informed about the plans of Webel.
4) By depending not only personal communication and to make a wide spread publicity about Webel’s intention, an advertisement of 8x27 cm was published in “Ananda Bazar Patrika” and other dailies on 14.09.2010 inviting any claim/ objection about the said land. Nobody objected.
5) As per extant rules and orders, the referred land was registered on 24/12/2010, vide deed no:14282 of 2010 at ADSR, Sonarpur, South 24Pgs.and mutation was done on 28/12/2010, vide J.L. No. 71, Khatian No 2826 of mouza Jagaddal
6) The change of character of the land was effected on 5/1/2011 in the office of the DL&LRO, South 24Pgs, vide memo no:55©/1/207/P/11 following the existing govt. rules and orders
7) The entire land would be handed over to individual hardware companies. The allotment process has already started. After the allotment and possession, the companies will design their plans along with Webel. The composite plan will be submitted to local municipality for approval.
INVESTMENT PROSPECT:
WBEIDCL as on date, has already invested about Rs.10 crores and plans to invest around Rs.4 crores more in the near future. The intending companies are expected to invest around Rs.200 crores. Though needless still to mention that downstream growth will also continue to enrich the investment plan as above.
The Electronics, Telecommunication and Renewable Energy devices manufacturing industries in the small and medium sector has a potential of annual average turnover of Rs. 10 crores to Rs.15 crores. It is expected that the entrepreneurs who will set-up their units in this park, should be able to make a turnover not less than Rs.250 crores per year. This will also help in development of local ancillary industries and will also boost the economy of the surrounding areas.
EMPLOYMENT POTENTIAL :
There will be approximately 20 companies in the area. Three companies are being given allotment letters today. This park when fully operational will accommodate at least 1500 directly provisioning around 10,000 indirect employment. This park will also bring about changes in surrounding economy through the ancillaries.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
IT Department and Webel are grateful to all the people of the locality and surroundings, for their whole hearted co-operation in helping this project to its successful completion.
সোনারপুরে হার্ডওয়্যার পার্কের উদ্বোধন করলেন মুখ্যমন্ত্রী
নিজস্ব প্রতিনিধি: সোনারপুর, ২৫শে ফেব্রুয়ারি — তথ্যপ্রযুক্তি, টেলিযোগাযোগ এবং সৌর শক্তির ভবিষ্যৎ সম্ভাবনার দিকে তাকিয়েই হার্ডওয়্যার নীতি গ্রহণ করেছে রাজ্য সরকার। সোনারপুরে হার্ডওয়্যার পার্ক গঠনের উদ্যোগও সেই নীতির সঙ্গে সঙ্গতি রেখেই শুক্রবার সোনারপুরে ওয়েবেল ইলেকট্রনিক্স ইন্ডাস্ট্রি পার্কের উদ্বোধন করে একথা বলেন মুখ্যমন্ত্রী বুদ্ধদেব ভট্টাচার্য।
মুখ্যমন্ত্রী জানান, এগারো একর জমির ওপর গড়ে উঠছে পার্কটি। যেখানে তিনটি সংস্থা আপাতত জমি নিয়েছে। সম্পূর্ণ গড়ে উঠলে সেখানে জায়গা পাবে অন্তত ২০টি কোম্পানি। আনুমানিক বিনিয়োগ হবে প্রায় ২০০ কোটি টাকা। প্রত্যক্ষভাবে কাজ পাবেন অন্তত দেড় হাজার মানুষ। পরোক্ষভাবে কাজের সঙ্গে যুক্ত হবেন অন্তত আরো হাজার দশেক মানুষ।
রাজ্যের তথ্যপ্রযুক্তি মন্ত্রী দেবেশ দাস জানান, গত পাঁচ বছরে তথ্যপ্রযুক্তি ক্ষেত্রে বিশেষ অগ্রগতি ঘটেছে এরাজ্যের। ২০০৬ সালে যেখানে এই শিল্পে কাজ করতেন প্রায় ৩২ হাজার মানুষ ২০১০ সালে সেই সংখ্যা বেড়ে দাঁড়িয়েছে ১ লক্ষ ৫ হাজার। রাজ্যের অনুমান আগামী এক বছরের মধ্যে সেই সংখ্যা ২ লক্ষ ছাড়িয়ে যাবে। ২০০৬ সালে যেখানে সফটওয়্যার রপ্তানির মূল্য ছিলো ২ হাজার ৭০০ কোটি টাকা, ২০১০ সালে তা বেড়ে দাঁড়িয়েছে ৬ হাজার ৫০০ কোটি টাকা। তিনি জানান, সৌর বিদ্যুতের সেল মডিউল এবং সার্কিট তৈরির ক্ষেত্রেও অন্যতম অগ্রগণ্য এরাজ্য। ভারতে সোলার সেল এবং মডিউল তৈরি করে ৩০টি কোম্পানি, এরমধ্যে এরাজ্যেই রয়েছে ৮টি। সারা দেশে সোলার সার্কিট তৈরি করে ৮০টি কোম্পানি। এর মধ্যে ৩১টি এরাজ্যের। মুখ্যমন্ত্রী জানান, যেহেতু আগামীদিনে সৌর শক্তির ব্যবহার বাড়াতেই হবে, এবং টেলিযোগাযোগ ব্যবস্থা এবং তথ্যপ্রযুক্তি শিল্পের বিকাশের উজ্জ্বল সম্ভাবনা রয়েছে। তাই হার্ডওয়্যারের ক্ষেত্রেও এরাজ্যের সম্ভাবনা উজ্জ্বল।
রাজ্যের তথ্যপ্রযুক্তি দপ্তরের প্রধান সচিব বাসুদেব ব্যানার্জি বলেন, সারা দেশেই হার্ডওয়্যার উৎপাদনের ক্ষেত্রে ঘাটতি রয়েছে। অথচ যে হারে বাড়ছে টেলিযোগাযোগ, মোবাইল ফোন, ইন্টারনেট পরিষেবা কম্পিউটারের ব্যবহার তাতে হার্ডওয়্যার উৎপাদনের পরিকল্পনার প্রয়োজন। বর্তমানে হার্ডওয়্যার বাজারের বৃদ্ধির বার্ষিক হার ১২ থেকে ১৫ শতাংশ। দেবেশ দাস জানান, যে তিনটি সংস্থাকে এদিন জমি দেওয়া হলো, তাছাড়াও তাইওয়ানের কয়েকটি সংস্থার সঙ্গেও আলোচনা চলছে। যে জমিটিতে গড়ে উঠছে ইলেকট্রনিক্স পার্কটি, সেটি ছিলো একটি বন্ধ ইটভাটার জমি।
এদিন অনুষ্ঠানে এছাড়াও উপস্থিত ছিলেন সোনারপুরের বিধায়ক শ্যামল নস্কর, ওয়েবেলের চেয়ারম্যান এন আর ব্যানার্জি, ওয়েবেলের ম্যানেজিং ডিরেক্টর তমাল দাশগুপ্ত, দক্ষিণ ২৪ পরগনার জেলাশাসক নারয়ণস্বরূপ নিগম প্রমুখ।
South 24 Parganas District Headquarters shift to Baruipur drives road extension
| DEBASISH CHATTOPADHYAY | |
The Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) has taken up a scheme to build a 12-km road from Garia to Baruipur as part of the plan to shift the district headquarters of South 24-Parganas. The four-lane road, which will link the EM Bypass to the proposed site of the district headquarters in Baruipur, will be laid in two phases. The headquarters is now based in Alipore. In the first phase, the road will extend from Garia to Kamalgazi, and in the next phase up to Baruipur. Land acquisition and alignment work for the road are complete. Local CPM parliamentarian Sujan Chakraborty, the CPM legislator from Baruipur, Rahul Ghosh, and senior officials of the CMDA surveyed the area before the road plan was finalised. The people’s representatives and the CMDA officials also decided to build six bridges across Tolly’s Nullah. The project cost for the road has been estimated at Rs 54 crore, which will be provided by the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission Scheme under its Ganga Action Plan. “The new road will be vital after the headquarters is shifted to Baruipur,” said Chakraborty. The shift will see a spurt in construction in the small district town. “A healthcare hub and a technical college are among the immediate priorities. Once these projects and many more come up, traffic to and from Baruipur will increase manifold. The road has been planned keeping this in mind,” Chakraborty added. The thoroughfare will run on both sides of Tolly’s Nullah. The stretches along the banks will be beautified. “We also have plans to construct at least six bridges across Tolly’s Nullah in phases,” he added. The state environment department and the Union ministry of environment and forests have sanctioned Rs 24 crore for building the bridges and the beautification project. Chunar De, the chief engineer of the CMDA’s Ganga Action Plan sector, said: “We hope to finish work before the monsoon if everything goes according to plan.” P.B.Nag, the general secretary of Development Employees Joint Action Committee, said the project had been delayed by a year because of land acquisition problems. |
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