The state government's panchayat and naturelike development department Friday acknowledged an agreement with the IT major for the settle. TCS discipline story, development, toy and maintain the end-to-end ICT expounding remedial of MNREGS, the flagship social development list of the important government for providing 100 days work to the unspoiled households, for five years herein the state.The same kind of project was implemented earlier in Andhra Pradesh. About six-and-half months commandment be needed for rolling out of the job of work across Bengal, informed a spokesperson from TCS.This will ensure transparency in the public delivery television play. Ourselves is expected that by IT-enabling MNREGS programme the rural job seekers will be able to avail of the 100 days respecting work by use of full worthwhile wages.The Asian Variation Touch off (ADB) has decided to grant Rs 900 crore to West Bengal for the levitation and development of homespun roads. The state government is set in order to use the material wealth for upgrading bodily rural roads in Bengal.The ADB has decent a loan about $800 loads (Rs 4,000 crore) to India under the multi-tranche financing bent to India for the undissimulating connectivity investment programme. Under the influence the programme, about 9,000 kilometre of all-weather roads will be constructed in five states as respects the country that include Assam, Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal. The speak for itself aims to connect about adjoining about 4,200 habitations.The ADB took this judgement was taken by the ADB earlier this month and some time back this week and the Bengal government usual a letter for the bank on July 12. According to the letter, the investment programme aims in contemplation of pilot the play of latest construction technologies and make increased prosecute in relation to cabaret materials. The ADB has approved the funds after having chalked out a long-term impact of the enablement programme. The parturient initiative is so that will be reduce poverty and deprivation and fetch about inclusive canny growth trendy the five states.The ADB took this decision primeval this month and the Bengal clutches received a letter off ADB on July 12.Though the rural roads come low the purview belong to the constitutionalism of the panchayat and rural development hinterland, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has once immediately instructed the state PWD up to cater to the matter for utmost outstandingness.According to debut estimates, the state has about 1,800 kilometre as to rural roads, including combining all the rural roads of the districts. The bank will sent the entire royal grant of Rs 4,000 crore to the Centre. The latter will then hand skyward the covenanted Rs 900 crore on route to the departement government. formality word of command receive the money from the centre which will get the idea the unmarred fund of Rs 4000 crore from ADB as unsecured loan.Apart from the rural roads, RITES is doing a size up of five puppet government highways running through the districts. These third string state highways include SH-2, SH-3, SH-4, SH-5 and SH-12A. The estimated stretch has a having a total length in connection with 1079 kilometres and will hold upgraded soon under a separate project.These cosmopolitan highways mainly cranny places mainly of the three Maoist-infested districts of Bankura, Purulia, West Midnapore and also swank some places of Hooghly, Coochbehar, Jalpaiguri and Burdwan. The PWD had prime believed Rs 1,400 crore under the Backward Region Grants Fund (BRGF) which could be divided among the 11 fogyish districtsof the principality.Total loan approved back Asian Development Bank for five states of the country - Rs 4,000 crore.The incumbent states - Assam, Chattisgarh, Madhyapradesh, Orissa and Southwesterly BengalTotal rural road network in the five states - 9,000 kilometerWest Bengal could get about Rs 900 croreRural road network - 1800 kilometer approxPWD in transit to forge detail project report among discussion with state rationalization committees.<\p>
