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September 9, 1962 Himalayan Times
Sevan
WEST BENGAL:
MORE MILESTONES ON ROAD TO PROGRESS
( Continued from previous issue )
Special emphasis has
bean laid on the
development of power in
the Third Plan because of
the urgent need to remove
shortage in the State.
In the sphere of publio
health spectacular achieve-
ment has been made in
the control of Malaria.
'She success of the oon-
trol programme in evident
from the feet that the
death rate from the
disease has come down
from 3.6 per mill-> of
population in 1948 to
0.04 per mille in 11)61.
Steps have been taken
to prevent the spread of
tuberculosis tad between
1949 and 1961 more than
15 million persons have
been tested with tuberculin
persons have been given
B. C G. vaccination.
Steps have aUo been
taken for eradication of
small poX and cholera by
mass vaccination and
inoculation and also by
provision for environ-
mental sanitation and pure
drinking water. A com-
prehensive scheme for con-
trol of leprosy has been
approvad by Government.
In order to make
medical services available
to rural arease health
centres are being set up
all over the State By the
end of 1961 had been
iiet up 658 health centres.
In the field of edu-
cation giant strides have
been taken since Inde-
pendence. The number of
schools, both primary end
secondary, and of the
colleges in the State has
been m;re than doubled.
The North Bengal Uni-
versity Act and the
Rabindra Bharati Act
were passed last year and
these Universities have
begun to function. It was
decided to establish two
new engineering oolleges
during the Third Plan
and of those the college
at Jalpaiguri haB been
started.
Bringing the different
areus of the State within
easy reach of one another
has been an achievement
of the State Government.
On the date of partition
in West Bengal, Govern-
ment had only 1181 miles
of road under its direct
control. Under the First
Five Y--, r Plan nearly
1,700 m les roads were
completed and in the
Second Plan about 2,300
miles of new road have
been added, besides 33
miles of National High-
ways and a number of
bridges. The idea behind
the Second Plan has been
to connect every police
Nation to the Sub-divi-
sion town. Today Govern,
ment have under its
direot control 5,800 miles
of fully oompleted road
and 1,900 miles of par-
tially metalled or kutcha
roads.
Considerable progress
has been made in the
implementation of the
Community Development
Programme, the agency
through which transfor-
mation of the social and
economic life of the
villagers is sought to be
brought about. So far,
three quarters of tii6 rural
population of the State
have been covered by
Community Development
Blocks and the remaining
population will be eovered
by Octob-r, 1963. The
introduction of the Pan-
chayat Raj is a major
development in the rural
aieas. Already or.e third
of the State has been co-
vered by Gram FaDchayats
and Anchal P:\nehayat3.
READ
TIBETAN TALES
By David Macdonald
Himalayan Stores,
Kaltmpong
Sevan
WEST BENGAL:
MORE MILESTONES ON ROAD TO PROGRESS
( Continued from previous issue )
Special emphasis has
bean laid on the
development of power in
the Third Plan because of
the urgent need to remove
shortage in the State.
In the sphere of publio
health spectacular achieve-
ment has been made in
the control of Malaria.
'She success of the oon-
trol programme in evident
from the feet that the
death rate from the
disease has come down
from 3.6 per mill-> of
population in 1948 to
0.04 per mille in 11)61.
Steps have been taken
to prevent the spread of
tuberculosis tad between
1949 and 1961 more than
15 million persons have
been tested with tuberculin
persons have been given
B. C G. vaccination.
Steps have aUo been
taken for eradication of
small poX and cholera by
mass vaccination and
inoculation and also by
provision for environ-
mental sanitation and pure
drinking water. A com-
prehensive scheme for con-
trol of leprosy has been
approvad by Government.
In order to make
medical services available
to rural arease health
centres are being set up
all over the State By the
end of 1961 had been
iiet up 658 health centres.
In the field of edu-
cation giant strides have
been taken since Inde-
pendence. The number of
schools, both primary end
secondary, and of the
colleges in the State has
been m;re than doubled.
The North Bengal Uni-
versity Act and the
Rabindra Bharati Act
were passed last year and
these Universities have
begun to function. It was
decided to establish two
new engineering oolleges
during the Third Plan
and of those the college
at Jalpaiguri haB been
started.
Bringing the different
areus of the State within
easy reach of one another
has been an achievement
of the State Government.
On the date of partition
in West Bengal, Govern-
ment had only 1181 miles
of road under its direct
control. Under the First
Five Y--, r Plan nearly
1,700 m les roads were
completed and in the
Second Plan about 2,300
miles of new road have
been added, besides 33
miles of National High-
ways and a number of
bridges. The idea behind
the Second Plan has been
to connect every police
Nation to the Sub-divi-
sion town. Today Govern,
ment have under its
direot control 5,800 miles
of fully oompleted road
and 1,900 miles of par-
tially metalled or kutcha
roads.
Considerable progress
has been made in the
implementation of the
Community Development
Programme, the agency
through which transfor-
mation of the social and
economic life of the
villagers is sought to be
brought about. So far,
three quarters of tii6 rural
population of the State
have been covered by
Community Development
Blocks and the remaining
population will be eovered
by Octob-r, 1963. The
introduction of the Pan-
chayat Raj is a major
development in the rural
aieas. Already or.e third
of the State has been co-
vered by Gram FaDchayats
and Anchal P:\nehayat3.
READ
TIBETAN TALES
By David Macdonald
Himalayan Stores,
Kaltmpong