Firhad Hakim, long regarded as one of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's closest aides and a key organisational figure in the party, has stood by the TMC leadership through several political battles.
Firhad Hakim is a former state minister and one of the most prominent faces of Trinamool Congress in West Bengal.
Mamata Banerjee gave a nod to Firhad Hakim’s proposal to resign from the mayoral post claimed by TMC leader Kunal Ghosh today.
Aiming to conserve water as much as possible, the sewerage and drainage department of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation is mulling over plans to treat drainage water for making it usable in households.
The Bengal government on Tuesday announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakh for the family of each person who died in the devastating fire at Anandapur in East Kolkata.
The fact that the minimum sentence for offences relating to illegal constructions is less than seven years, is posing a major hurdle in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s efforts to curb the illegal constructions dotting various pockets of the city.
Aiming to create awareness among citizens, the environment wing of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation launched a flagship programme of certificate course named ‘Paribesh Yoddha’ to incorporate more and more youths in the process of saving nature.
Aiming to curb illegal constructions in the city, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has now shifted its lens towards smaller plots.
Kolkata is in a better situation this year till now as far as dengue infections are concerned, informed the mayor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Firhad Hakim, today.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee today came down heavily on the underperforming civic bodies on a range of issues from alleged land encroachments to issuing of trade licences
