Kolkata Diary: All that’s happenign within the ‘City of Joy’

Express News Service

More IIT-Kharagpur college students need on-line examination, finds survey

Close to 98 per cent college students of IIT Kharagpur, most of whom are current on the campus, have now expressed need to put in writing the end-semester exams on-line, mentioned an official. Last week after the institute gave the scholars, apart from these in undergraduate first 12 months, choice to decide on how they wish to write the end-semester exams following protests over forcing college students to put in writing the exams on-line.

A complete of seven,899 out of 8,069 mentioned they’d write the exams on-line. The IIT determined to offer the choice after  after an open-house session between institute director V Ok Tewari and eight,000 odd college students on March 21, over the protests which the IIT witnessed.

Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, BRO ink deal for strategic bridges

To additional its strides in facilitating highway improvement in tough terrains in India, Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd, (GRSE) has signed an MoU with the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) for the fabrication, provide, erection and launching of first-of-its-kind,  double-lane Class 70 modular metal bridges in border areas.

The two 12 months contract price Rs 65 crore was inked by the Director General of the BRO, Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhary and Cmde PR Hari, IN (Retd.), officiating chairman & managing director, of the Miniratna Category 1 Defence PSU.

These bridges have been designed in-house by GRSE & all parts have been manufactured with 100 per cent indigenous uncooked supplies, according to India’s Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan.

254 most cancers beds inaugurated at Tata Medical Center

Kolkata acquired 254 new most cancers beds on the Tata Medical Center in Rajarhat on Saturday. The beds, a proportion of which is reserved for underprivileged sufferers, are within the Tata Medical Center Phase-II. Indian Oil Corporation can also be part of the second section improvement of the hospital.

Tens of 1000’s of most cancers sufferers from Bengal go to different states for remedy as a result of Kolkata doesn’t have sufficient most cancers beds and services. Data by the ICMR-National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research recommend that in 2020 alone 1.08 lakh new most cancers circumstances had been reported in Bengal.

Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation​ to survey for unlawful billboards

Officials will establish unlawful billboards in a survey to be carried out throughout Salt Lake, locations off the VIP Road and components of Rajarhat to, mentioned sources on the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation. The not too long ago handed price range of the civic physique has set a goal to mop up round Rs 65 lakh in income from outside commercials.

“These are high visibility areas but our revenue from the billboards from these places has been low. We want to change this,” mentioned an official of the civic physique. Once the survey is over, notices might be despatched to billboard house owners who haven’t been paying tax.