At a time when pockets in the extended southern tips of the city are struggling to get adequate water supply for their daily chores, controlling wastage by sections of citizens has become a challenging task for Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
Intensifying its measures to check illegal constructions, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has now sought help from the CESC to ‘curb the menace.’
An illegal construction could bring a long term jail of up to 10 years for those found guilty in such cases.
Calcutta High Court today expressed unhappiness on the investigation into Garden Reach building collapse and talked tough against the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has introduced a window on its official website to enable citizens to check the details of a particular building in the limits of the civic body.
After putting efforts to streamline hawkers in Gariahat and New Market, the town vending committee (TVC) of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation is now considering shifting its lens to two other markets including stretches of Strand Road and Fancy Market.
The town vending committee of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to approach the Calcutta High Court for reconsideration of the direction for removal of hawkers from a spot near Medical College.
Prioritizing a deeper knowledge of vector management, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to impart training to the 100-days workers and the vector control inspectors across 144 wards.
The SOPs mandate complaints on illegal filling of water bodies to the borough executive engineer and an immediate action on the matter within 24 hours.
The situation turned tense after a large number of locals posed an obstruction while pulling down portions of a building that had leaned visibly and had been identified for demolition by the KMC
