The best Mandal Award 2021 has been won by Kakraban-Shalgara Assembly Mandal, in Gomati district for implementing various significant Prime Minister Yojanas to benefit the people of the constituency.
About 100 families whose income depended on students who lived in hostels on the NIT Durgapur premises have been on the brink of penury since the students went home because of the pandemic.
Mostly contractual workers in the canteens, they would do jobs like cooking or helping in the kitchen. Their employers stopped payment the day their work stopped.
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The National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur, had asked students to vacate the hostels in March 2020 as a precaution against Covid.
The institute’s alumni raised Rs 5.75 lakh over the past two months and distributed it to 98 people last week.
Debajyoti Saha, who served food in the hall IX canteen and earn Rs 9,500 on an average before the pandemic, tried several odd jobs, but in vain.