Newly-appointed chairman of the Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority (SJDA), Dilip Duggar, held a high-level meeting on Wednesday with Siliguri mayor Goutam Deb and senior officials to discuss a range of developmental issues, with particular emphasis on easing traffic congestion in central Siliguri in view of the upcoming Assembly elections.
Former Siliguri mayor and former state urban development and municipal affairs minister Asok Bhattacharya today said that they would seek the information on the money given by the Bengal Unitech Universal.
"Our focus is to complete the ongoing projects. There are 18 ongoing projects and the vetting process of 16 of them has been completed. No new project will be announced now because chief minister Mamata Banerjee has stressed austerity measures,"
Most of the nine projects in the Siliguri Assembly constituency have been undertaken in TMC-run wards.
SJDA officials said nine such constructions had come up in the market.
Union minister of state for drinking water and sanitation and Darjeeling MP, SS Ahluwalia, is finally scheduled to inaugurate the…
