33 KV sub station at Dihika for WTP of 11 MGD JnNURM project at Asansol, to be ready by June 2013

Health Check up of NSAP pensioners - innovative approach getting good response

There are 1.30 lakhs persons getting Old Aged, widow and disability pension in Burdwan district at the rates of Rs 600 pm to Rs 750 pm.

• As per norms, annual life certificate of each beneficiary is required to be submitted every year to continue pensions.
• It is noticed that due to poor collection of life certificates claims of pensions are not cleared in time in most of the pension schemes.
• District administration decided to organise health check up camps to all pension holders as innovative alternative to life certificate as it will not only confirm the life of beneficiary in easy way but also ensures medical check up free of cost.
• In health check up camps at 10 Sub centres/ PHCs in four GPs of Mangalkote block today, 1375 pensioners got free health check up done by Govt. medical teams arranged by BDO. Mangalkote. All of them were brought to the camps by ASHA workers/ GP employees as per sansad wise list of pension holders. Medicines as per prescription were also supplied free of cost.
• Follow up in each case is also been noted by concerned health workers and doctors.
• We plan to cover all the beneficiaries in next one month.
• Health check up camps are being organised at Govt costs at nearest sub centres within one kilometre from home.
• We are happy to get so good response to the initiative.

Thanks BDO Mangalkote.

All BDOs will please follow up as per orders issued.

Rs 1573 Crores Collected from Coal revenue by Burdwan in 2012-13, increased by five times in three years - results of conducive environment for coal mining and better collection strategy

Coal mining operations in Raniganj Coal Fields Areas contributes a substantial revenue to State Govt in the form of Coal Cess & Royalty, Surface Rents, Water Rents and Land Revenue from mining lands held by coal companies and sand stowing used in refilling etc.

• District administration monitors and supervises the collections from Coal companies like ECL, EMTA, ICML, IISCO and other private miners.
• All the collections are assessed and collected by Govt agencies at district level under the overall control of District Administration. Chief Mining Officer under Commerce & Industry department, Dy Cess Collector Asansol, Commissioner Commercial Taxes and Land & Land Reforms department officers are involved in assessment and collection of the taxes and rents.
• District administration ensured well planned monitoring system, assessment and collection reviewed regularly with all the agencies and coal companies in last three years. At the same time, Coal companies also got best conducive environment for coal mining in few years, with almost no labour unrest affecting production, cessation of illegal coal mining due to strict enforcement policy of State and easy clearances of Govt agencies for lands and other issues that helped increasing coal production.
• We could realise most of the revenue dues and also collected long pending arrears through regular persuasions.
• Here are the results :-
• Total collection by District Officers in Burdwan Treasuries in 2012-13 stood at Rs 1573 Crores as on 31st March 2013.
• It was Rs 292 crores only in 2009-10.
• Collections from coal mining increased to Rs 454 Crores next year in 2010-11
• It further increased to Rs 1444 crores in 2011-12, record growth
• This year collection stood at Rs 1573 crores. Thereby, revenue increased five folds in last three years.

As per assessment Burdwan Collected approximately Rs 1800 crores from Coal revenues in the current year including some of the funds deposited at Kolkata Office by Coal companies not shown in Rs 1573 crores.