Tell about West Bengal?

There are steel plants at Durgapur and Burnpur and a locomotive plant at Chittaranjan. Haldia, the terminus of an oil pipeline from Assam and the site of a large oil refinery, also has a petrochemical industry.

Other important manufactures include ships, automobiles, chemicals and fertilizers, wagons, electronics, paper, jute, and cotton textiles. The state has a large number of small-scale and cottage industries as well. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the only mineral resources of West Bengal

sustained nationally significant exploitation were coal and clay for brickmaking.

The service sector has accounted for an increasing proportion of the state’s economy.

ade, finance, insurance, and related activities have grown significantly, and tourism has become increasingly important.

Also experiencing growth has been the information technology sector. Kolkata is the financial centre for both the state and eastern India.

Local river transportation was augmented by steam navigation in the 19th century—first introduced between Kolkata, Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh), and Guwahati (Assam).

Local river transportation was augmented by steam navigation in the 19th century—first introduced between Kolkata, Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh), and Guwahati (Assam).

The division of Bengal in 1947 and the ongoing deterioration of river channels have disrupted river transport.

Nevertheless, Kolkata and its sister port of Haldia, farther south, still handle international trade. West Bengal saw the inauguration of the railway system in eastern India in 1854, and local railway headquarters are now located in the state.

Kolkata was the first Indian city to open an underground railway system.

National highways link West Bengal with the rest of India, while state highways provide internal connections.

There is an international airport at Kolkata as well as several smaller airfields within the state.

The structure of the government of West Bengal, like that of most Indian states, is determined by the national constitution of 1950.

The head of state is the governor, who is appointed by the president of India.

The elected Council of Ministers, with a chief minister at its head, aids and advises the governor.

The elected Council of Ministers, with a chief minister at its head, aids and advises the governor.

The chief minister is appointed by the governor, and the other ministers are appointed by the governor on the advice of the chief minister.

he Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to the state legislature, which consists of a single house, the Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha). The constitution provides for a High Court; its chief justice and judges are appointed by the president of India.

The state is divided administratively into a number of districts.

Each district, except that of Kolkata, is administered by a collector, who is also the district magistrate.

Districts, in turn, are divided into subdivisions, each administered by a subdivisional officer. Units of police jurisdiction vary in area according to population. Most encompass several mawzas (villages).

the object of developing rural self-government, mawzas were grouped together under elected local authorities known as panchayats.

Established under the West Bengal Panchayat Act of 1956, panchayats are entrusted with sanitary and conservation services and with the supervision of the village police and the development of cottage industries.

A three-tiered panchayat system, comprising several thousand village-level panchayats, several hundred intermediate-level panchayats, and more than a dozen district-level panchayats, covers the rural area.