Ministry of Information & Cultural Affairs is a nodal ministry mainly responsible for the information, culture, film and archaeological heritage related activities.
There shall be a general Service known as the West Bengal Sub-ordinate Information and Cultural Service under the administrative control of the Information and Cultural Affairs Department.
District Information & Cultural Officer may exercise option to come under the said revised scale of pay as has been allowed vide this Department’s Order No. 546-ICA dt. 27.2.09 w.e.f. any date between 1.1.96 to 1.1.97.
Governor is pleased to decide that the Cable Operators, sub-operators and workers employed by them in such business are also brought within the coverage of Swasthya Sathi.
After negotiations with different media houses the rates of advertisements of different newspapers have been fixed which will take effect from 01.06.2012.
Computerization of Ration Card in West Bengal has been started and will be continued upto 09th February, 2014. All concerned are requested to contact to respective ration shop at the earliest.
Recognised Hospitals/ Institutions, Laboratories/ Diagnostic Centres for the purpose of availing benefits of medical treatment under health scheme for the journalists, Maavoi.
The scale of pay of Sub-Divisional Information & Cultural Officer was revised from Scale No.12 i.e. Rs. 1500-3410/- to Scale No. 14 i.e. Rs. 5500-11325/- with effect from 1.1.96 notionally with actual benefit from 1.1.2007.
Project Sandeepan – the inmate literacy programme in Correctional Homes of West Bengal w.e.f. the 1st day of February, 2017, the auspicious day of Saraswati Puja.
The officer holding the post of Official Photographer may exercise option to come under ROPA, 2009 on the basis of such notional pay in relaxation of note 4 below Rule-6 of WBS (ROPA) Rules ’09.
Government has fixed rates for release of advertisements by the Department of Information and Cultural Affairs, Govt. of West Bengal in various print media for the year 2015-16.