Ministry of Information & Cultural Affairs is a nodal ministry mainly responsible for the information, culture, film and archaeological heritage related activities.
West Bengal Heritage Commission will constitute an Administrative and Legal Committee in its meeting (in respect of matters of staff both redeployed employees from other Department of the Government or those engaged on contract or otherwise or any other matter of this nature)
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.
Maavoi – West Bengal Health Scheme for Journalists, 2016 will be implemented, managed and monitored by the Information & Cultural Affairs Department, West Bengal.
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.
The officer holding the post of Bengali Translator 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.
In view of the Parliamentary Election-2014 to be held on 17th, 24th, 30th April 2014, 7th & 12th May, 2014 in the different Parliamentary Constituencies and simultaneous Bye-election to 6 (six) Assembly Constituencies in this State, the Government has declared the said days as public holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.
Maavoi is the West Bengal Health Scheme for the Journalists who are accredited with the Department of I&CA, has taken effect from 01.03.2016.
Information & Cultural Affairs Department is entrusted with the responsibility of releasing all State Government Advertisements. Hence forward all advertisements to I&CA at least 5 days prior to date of publication.
After negotiations with different media houses the rates of advertisements of different newspapers have been fixed which will take effect from 01.06.2012.
The first higher Scale and Second higher Scale of direct recruit Assistant Information Officer for the purpose of CAS ’90/ MCAS ’01 benefit would be Scale No. 16 (Rs. 8000-13500/-) and Scale No. 17 (Rs. 10000-15525/-) respectively.