Bhupendra Nath Bose was the founder and first president of Mohun Bagan Club.

Arati Saha was a long distance swimmer and was inspired by Mihir Sen to cross the Englisg Channel in 1959.

mohammedan SC Club was the first Indian club to win the Durand Cup in 1940 and the first Indian club to win on foreign land.

Nagendra Prasad Sarbadhikary is acknowledged as the Father of Indian Soccer for his prominent role in introducing soccer as a teenager in the year 1877 at Hare School in North Bengal.

Under Amar Fasal Amar Gola scheme, farmers are given financial assistance of Rs.5000 to Rs.32000 for construction of storage structures to be used in agriculture.

Shishu Sathi scheme run by the Health Department, West Bengal provides free teatment for children who need heart surgeries, irrespective of the financial situation of the parents.

Under the Khadya Sathi scheme, people who are backward in socio-economic terms i.e. people from tribal groups, workers of tea gardens, pavement dwellers of Kolkata, drought affected area of Purulia, residents of Darjeeling hill area, etc are given foodgrains at Rs. 2 per kg.

Muktir Alo scheme is run to improve the condition of women who are exploited under sex trade. In this scheme, these women are provided with some skill and training, so that they get other opportunities to earn and lead a dignified life.

Under Amar Fasal Amar Gari scheme, subsidies are provided to ensure hassle-free transportation of agricultural produce to minimise post-harvest loss. A sum of Rs.10,000 is given for buying rickshawvans.

Under Sikshashree scheme, the State Government provides grants to SC/ST students to reduce their school drop-out rate.

Kanyashree scheme was launched on 1st October, 2013. This scheme I srun by Women and Child Development Department of West Bengal.

Sufal Bangla project is run by Agricultural Marketing Department of Government of West Bengal. It ensures availibility of fruits and vegetables through door-to-door seelling by mobile vans.

The eight health districts are Nandigram, Jhargram, Bishnupur, Rampurhat, Diamond Harbour, Bashirhat, Asansol and Kalimpong. 'Jal-Tirtha' scheme is presently running in arid regions of Birbhum, Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore. 1000 Shishu Aloys are opened simultaneoulsly in 20 districts including Purulia, East and West Midnapore, North and South Dinajpur, Malda, Birbhum, Bankura, Darjeeling, North and South 24 Parganas, etc. Under Geetanjali scheme, the State government provides Rs.70 thousand per house in plain area and rs.75 thousand inmountain areas and Sunderban region for the construction of house.

Almost 90.6% of the population in the state is covered under Khadya Sathi scheme.

Jal-Tirtha' scheme is presently running in arid regions of Birbhum, Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore.

A large number of Bauris are found in Bankura, Birbhum and other districts of West Bengal. Munda tribe lives in the regions of Pukuria (West Midnapore) and Sonarpur (South 24 Parganas). Rajbanshi caste people live in and around Cooch Behar, North Dinajpur and Jalpaiguri.

Bauri is divided into many sub-castes like Mallabhumia, Sikharia, Gobaria, Panchakoti, Mola, Dhalia, Jhatia and Pathuria.

The Swasthya Sathi scheme is a health insurance scheme for civic police volunteers, home guards, ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) workers working for State Government on contractual, casual and daily basis.

Under Sabuj Sathi scheme, bicycles are distributed to the students of class IX to XII in all government/government aided schools.

Under Sobujshree scheme, a sapling will be given to every new born child at the time of release from the hospital. Parents are requested to plant that sapling and name it after their child so that as the child grows, the sapling also turns into a tree thus offering flowers, fruits and oxygen.

Mal Paharia tribe is located in various districts including Bankura, Bardhaman and Murshidabad.

Sohrai is the biggest festivl amomg Santhals. Karam festival celebrated in the month of September-October is their major festival.

According to Census 2011, Scheduled Tribe (ST) population in the state is 52,96,953 which constitutes 5.8% of the total population of the state. Darjeeling district has the highest ST population of 21.52% and Kolkata district has the lowest ST population of 0.24%

Under Prandhara scheme the government of West Bengal provide cheap packaged drinking water throughout state.

Nija Griha Nija Bhumi is a multi-purpose project which provides the landless agricultural labourers five decimals of land to make house and do farming. This ensures food security.

Chittaranjan Das was popularly called Desbandhu 'Friend of the country'.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 2000 to 2011.

The first Shishu Aloy (Advanced Anganwadi centre) was opened at Domjyur village in Rudrapur of Howrah district. 1000 Shishu Aloys are opened simultaneously in 20 districts.

Eight health districts have been created to streamline the functioning of the district health administration.

Shihsu Aloy was launched on 27th November, 2015.

Sobujshree Scheme was launched on 19th December, 2016 by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. This scheme is run by the Forest Department of the Government of West Bengal.

Yuvashree scheme is run by the Labour Department of the West Bengal Government.

Amartya Sen was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Economics in the year 1998 for his contribution in the field of Welfare economics.

The Fair Price Diagnostic Centres operated by Government of West Bengal provide diagnostic facilities like MRI, CT Scan, digital X-ray, etc at nominal charges. They also offer upto 72% discount on medicines.

Kanyashree scheme received the first prize among 552 nominations from 62 countries in the category "Reaching the poorest and most vulnerable through inclusive services and participation" in the World Forum heal at 'The Hague' in the Netherlands in 2017.

The Fair Price Diagnostic Centres operated by Government of West Bengal provide diagnostic facilities like MRI, CT Scan, digital X-ray, etc at nominal charges. They also offer upto 72% discount on medicines.

The eight health districts are Nandigram, Jhargram, Bishnupur, Rampurhat, Diamond Harbour, Bashirhat, Asansol and Kalimpong.

A crescograph is a device for measuring growth in plants. Jagadish Chandra Bose invented crescograph in the 20th century.

Under Amar Dhan Amar Chatal scheme, farmers are given one-time financial assistance for the construction of household paddy processing unit.

Under Gatidhara scheme, government provides loans on easy terms to buy cars/trucks/lorries (30% of the price of Rs.1 lakh) for commercial use. This cheme is very popular with unemployed youth as it provides alternative source of employment.

Under Geetanjali scheme, the state government provides funds to build houses to people who have monthly income below Rs.6000

Under Sukanya scheme, girls and women are provided with self-defence training in schools, colleges and institutions.

Satyendra Nath Bose is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, providing the foundation for Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate.

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was the priest of the Dakshineswar Kali Temple.

Bidhan Chandra Roy was the second Chief minister of West Bengal. He remained in his post for 14 years from 1948 until his death.

Bina Das tried to assassinate the Bengal Governor and a former England Cricket Captain Stanley Jackson, in the University of Calcutta, at the Convocation Hall.

Chittaranjan Das founded the Swaraj Party with veteran Motilal Nehru and the young Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, to express his uncompromising opinions.

Matangini Hazra was a freedom fighter from East Midnapore district.