In the notice, issued under Section 400(1) of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980, the civic body has given Banerjee seven days to demolish the alleged illegal construction or face action.
The KMC currently has four-time Trinamool Congress legislator and former member in the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Cabinet, Firhad Hakim, as its Mayor.
The city police today summoned two Trinamul Congress councillors Santiranjan Kundu and Sachin Singh of Wards 32 and 36 respectively of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation allegedly in connection with a fracas and illegal assembly in front of the state CEO office on Strand road on Wednesday and Thursday.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday issued summons to Debasish Kumar, a Trinamul Congress legislator from the Rashbehari Assembly constituency in south Kolkata and a Member-Mayor-in-Council (MMiC) of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, in connection with an alleged illegal land-grabbing case in West Bengal.
Aiming the development of the slum areas in the city, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation is planning to construct 1,800 Banglar Bari houses under the Uttaran scheme at a cost of over 164 crore.
Like every year, the authorities have taken an initiative to keep the Ganga water free of pollution. Hence as soon as the idols are immersed, the structure is brought out of water using crane-machines.
At least two callers during the ‘Talk to Mayor’ session complained about waterlogging woes in their wards today.
Firhad Hakim asserted that no public representative can intervene in the 'judicial matters'.
The officials of the different central investigation are unhappy over being used as tools of vendetta politics by the Union government or BJP, a senior member of the West Bengal cabinet said on Sunday.
The civic authorities have informed the police about these structures and the borough executive officers have been asked to keep a tab on them.
