Heritage bookstore in College St set to open new outlet
Dasgupta, the well-known heritage bookstore in the city, is going to open its outlet in south Kolkata on 1 May.
According to the West Bengal health department, there were no further confirmed deaths due to dengue today. However, the total number of people affected by dengue has gone up to a whopping 1874. In the last 24 hours, another 132 new cases of dengue were reported from across the state, health officials confirmed.
Meanwhile, a seven-year old girl, Ria Saha, of Ballygunge Station Road area died of high fever on Tuesday in a private hospital. However, the health department has not confirmed that she died due to dengue. On the other hand, KMC health officials said that the girl died of hemorrhagic fever.
Since the outbreak of the vector-borne disease, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has been combating the disease on a war footing. In one of its regular visits, the KMC team headed by MMIC-health Atin Ghosh visited Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in Ballygunge Phari under borough number 8 in ward 68 and found dengue causing mosquito in several places where garbage was dumped. He was accompanied by the local councillor of the ward, Sudarshana Mukherjee.
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Following the visit, KMC show caused two officers Gopal Mahapatra and Kalyan Patra of the ward on the ground that they did not inform KMC that the notice served by KMC was not received by ITI authority and that the academic institution did not conform to the KMC cleaning rule. Ghosh issued the second notice to the academic institute, after which KMC would consider legal action.
However, the ITI authority claimed that they could not do the cleaning work due to shortage of fund and dearth of college staff. Getting the news, MLA Subroto Mukherjee rushed to the institute as it was in his Assembly constituency.
Mukherjee assured the local people that the entire area would be cleaned using money from the MLA fund. Ghosh added that KMC sweepers would clean the area on Saturday. Ghosh also launched a KMC dengue awareness tabloid today to spread awareness against the disease.
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