Overview
- The West Bengal Cabinet, which met Monday, approved 14,454 posts to be filled through the West Bengal Public Service Commission and the Police Recruitment Board and directed that the process be completed within six to eight months.
- The state set short-term rollout steps for policing: the emergency number 112 will be launched on October 10, hundreds of vehicles and motorcycles will be handed to police stations at a Brigade Parade Ground event, and about 12,000 recruits will receive appointment letters on October 11.
- The Cabinet approved the Bhagini Nivedita scheme to provide Rs 50,000 to unmarried women in higher education over three years split as Rs 17,000, Rs 17,000 and Rs 16,000, but reports differ on whether the scheme starts in the current academic year or from January.
- Contractual sanitation workers known as 'Karmabandhus' will see monthly pay rise from Rs 5,000 to Rs 8,000 effective this month, and food allowances for SC and ST hostel students will increase from Rs 1,800 to Rs 3,300 per month effective October.
- Officials present the package as the first phase of a wider pledge to create 100,000 government jobs and to show visible service improvements before the festival season, but implementation hinges on the PSC and Police Recruitment Board's capacity and on timely administrative rollout.