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.
According to Mr Hakim, the task of these officials is to file a diary at the local police station and issue a notice when illegal construction comes to their notice.
This is for the first time that such a venture has been taken by the state government. It may be mentioned that the Kolkata Municipal Corporation ( KMC) has started giving heritage tags to heritage buildings.
The civic authorities have filed cases against 26 house owners who refused to comply in the municipal magistrate’s court. The court can slap a fine of anything between Rs 1,000 and Rs 1 lakh.
The first of its kind unit in the state has a capacity of processing 500 tonnes of construction and demolition waste every day.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation inaugurated a semi-underground booster pumping station-cum-reservoir bringing relief to residents of three wards in the area.
