Water for all: KMC sets up new projects for safe drinking water

Water for all: KMC sets up new projects for safe drinking water

Posted on March 21, 2015 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

Water is one of the most essential commodities in life. Unlike many other cities in India, the water supply system is Kolkata is one of the finer ones. KMC not only upgraded the system from time to time but is also steadily venturing into new projects.

KMC’s Water Supply Department has already completed the landmark project of laying a pipeline with a diameter of 64 inches, for dedicated transmission to Tallah from Palta. Construction of the 30 MGD capacity water treatment plant at Dhapa is now complete. Construction of a few more booster pump stations are in the pipeline.

Here are some of the initiatives taken by the Corporation to serve the citizens of Kolkata in a fruitful manner;

Water Treatment Plants

• Indira Gandhi Water Treatment Plant (Barrackpore)

• Watgunge Water Treatment Plant

• Jorabagan Water Treatment Plant

• Dhapa Water Treatment Plant

• Construction of additional 15 MGD capacity of water treatment plant at Garden Reach Water works

Pumping Station with Reservoirs

New Pumping Stations with reservoirs set up at Tallah, Subodh Mullick Square, Auckland Square, Behala, Md. Ali Park, Garfa, Park Circus, Ranikuthi, Kalighat, Bansdroni, Kasba, Bagmari, New Park, Daspara, Siriti.

Under Construction :

Gandhi Maidan, Telepera, Mukundapur, Anandapur, Baishnabghata Patuli.

How to get a water supply connection:

● Contact assistant engineer of the Local Office of Water Supply Department.

● List of plumbers are available with the department

● Select a plumber and take an estimate from the plumber. The user should apply in the prescribed format and place it before the assistant engineer for sanction

● After receiving of sanction, deposit the amount and get connection

One premises is entitled to get one Water Supply Connection however option for bulk meter is available for which one may contact an executive engineer (Water Supply) of the respective Zone for water supply through bulk meter.

For details including deposit money, water charges, connection fees, connection related complaints kindly visit KMC.

Immunisation for all: KMC initiatives preventing outbreak of diseases

Posted on March 20, 2015 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

Early detection and prompt treatment helps to cure many diseases from becoming fatal. Kolkata Municipal Corporation runs various health related clinics throughout areas under its jurisdiction. These centres are affordable and conveniently located.

The clinics run by the Corporation range from routine immunization centre, malaria clinics, chest clinics, anti-rabies vaccination centres etc.

Clinics under KMC

Malaria Clinics – The KMC has so far established 59 malaria detection-cum-treatment centres in different parts of the city for this purpose. Blood test and treatment is free of cost. Since the prime objective is to prevent deaths from malaria all febrile patients visiting the clinics are given full course of presumptive treatment with chloroquine and primaquine. Those whose blood samples are positive are given radical treatment. The KMC authorities have introduced several mobile malaria clinics to help slum-dwellers enjoy easy access to speedy diagnosis and treatment.

Preventive steps are also taken by the Corporation to stop spreading of this disease which has for centuries been wreaking havoc in the world. As many as 90 countries including India are endemic for this disease, where officially 300 million people now suffer and 1 million people die every year. From time to time KMC undertakes antilarval spraying, indoor fogging, indoor residual spraying, area fogging and publicity campaigning through various mediums to make the people aware of the same. Visit KMC website or click here

Routine Immunization Centres – Around the world, routine immunizations have reduced and even eliminated many childhood illnesses that once killed and debilitated many children. Although many vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) have been controlled, children are still dying from diseases that could be prevented by providing the critical vaccinations during the first few years of life. The World Health Organization estimated that, every year, 1.5 million children die from diseases that could have been prevented by routine vaccination. That staggering total represents almost one-fifth of all the children who died worldwide before reaching their fifth birthday.

For the convenience of the citizens of Kolkata, the Corporation runs number of Immunization Centres throughout the city. 98 centres for routine immunization and mobile team for house to house visit are conducted by KMC. One can also get in touch with boroughs of each locality for details. Mass immunization programmes (e.g polio) for reaching out to greater number of people are also undertaken at regular intervals.

Chest Clinics – People who believe that they may have heart disease generally wish to have their fears confirmed or denied rapidly. Instead of long waits it is suggested to avail the services of Chest Clinics run by KMC. Located conveniently, you can get the details through the website run by the Corporation or click here.

Anti-Rabies Clinics – Rabies is a 100% fatal disease which is transmitted to humans through animal bites. Immediate vaccination is required to be taken by humans if bitten by stray dogs. To make Kolkata a rabies free city, the Municipal Corporation has established vaccination centres and from time to time the Corporation also conducts vaccination programmes for stray dogs on the streets of Kolkata. Visit KMC website or click here to see the centres located at various parts of the city.

Community Halls for all: KMC makes social gatherings affordable for all

Posted on March 19, 2015 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

For the last few years Kolkata Municipal Corporation has taken various innovative measures to turn Kolkata into not only a clean and beautiful city but also keep it affordable for all, especially when the cost of living is on the rise in all other metros in India.

If north Kolkata has a swimming pool in a park and Behala promises of steady water supply and better roads, those residing in Deshapriya Park-Gariahat-Dover Terrace area as well as those in Bhowanipore has something special in their areas. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has constructed a three-storied community hall at Dover Terrace and another at Bhowanipore, for the ‘financially weaker’ section.

Each floor of the building has a sprawling 3,000 square feet banquet hall. This means that three parties can book the hall on the same day. Besides the banquet halls, there are modern kitchens, toilets and separate rooms for accommodating brides, grooms and guests. Anyone can book the banquets by paying a nominal charge in advance. Though the charge of each floor is yet to be decided, it will be within Rs 10,000 for a day.

Another Community Hall, Jai Hind, was recently inaugurated by the West Bengal Chief Minister at the Kalighat Road-Harish Mukherjee Road Xing in Bhowanipore.

The decision to construct a community hall was taken as cost of booking a standard community hall has become beyond the reach of financially weaker sections of the society. Though space is a premium but KMC wishes to undertake many such projects in the near future.

Other Community Halls inaugurated by the KMC under Trinamool Congress are at 2, Ripon Square Ward No. 62, the C.I.T Park Community Hall at Sovaram Basak Street in Ward No. 22, Borough – IV, ‘Pubali’ at Kheali Park in Ward. 04, Borough-I among others.

Along with various beautification projects in the city, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has also taken various social projects to meet the expectations and need of the public from building number of public toilets, schools, parks, modern and affordable mortuary and such banquet halls the municipal body has shown if there is a will there is a best possible way to serve the citizens of Kolkata.

Education for all: KMC initiative to provide free education makes mark

Posted on March 18, 2015 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

To provide basic education to the poor children within its jurisdiction without any discrimination of caste, religion or community is the basic principle on which Kolkata Municipal Corporation runs its schools.

This free education does no way mean it is not at par with other paid schools in the city. To keep up with the quality of education and to spread its reach, in February 2015, 24 new schools were inaugurated by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation at Uttam Manch by Sovan Chatterjee, Mayor of Kolkata. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) had earlier announced the plan of setting up six Junior schools, eight English medium schools and ten Montessori schools at the Uttam Mancha near Kalighat.

Along with imparting education, KMC also attaches local parks and playgrounds to these schools to encourage the students to take up sports and extracurricular activities.

Highlights of KMC’s initiative in spreading education:

• No. of KMC Schools at present are 263 including three streams i.e. Bengali, Hindi and Urdu (Boys & Girls).

• No. of Bengali Medium Schools are 154

• No. of Hindi Medium Schools are 46

• No. of Urdu Medium Schools are 56

• No. of Mixed (Bengali & Urdu) Medium Schools are 5

• No. of Mixed (Hindi & Urdu) Medium Schools are 2

With the Financial assistance of Govt. of West Bengal, KMC is organizing 102 centres of Child education (S.S.K) between 01 to 141 Ward in different streams.

• Bengali Medium: 72 Centres

• Hindi Medium: 10 Centres

• Urdu Medium: 17 Centres

• Odiya Medium: 01 Centre

The following schemes have been undertaken in KMC Schools for the benefit of KMC School Children and /or the children of the neighbouring areas.

• Annual Sports meet of KMC School Children.

• Participation in State Level Sports on regular basis

• Distribution of national text books amongst the children of KMCP Schools and S.S.K. on free of cost.

• Libraries for students

• Participation in integrated learning project evaluation through Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (S.S.A.).

• Various training programme for development of scientific concepts of the children of KMCP Schools are arranged by Education Department, KMC with the financial assistance of UNICEF.

• Celebration of International Literacy Day on 8th September every year.

• Distribution of School Uniforms.

• Distribution of academic prizes and sport prizes.

• Distribute Mid-day-meal to all students of KMC schools

• Celebration of auspicious days namely Netaji’s Birthday, Republic Day, Rabindra Jayanti, Independence Day etc.

• Participation of School Children in sit & draw programme.

• Participation of school children in educational tour to places of Historical interest.

• Arrangement of school wise exhibition on improvised models.

• Work Education and Physical Education.

Health for all: KMC initiative makes a mark

Posted on March 17, 2015 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has left no stones unturned to make proper health facilities available to the citizens of Kolkata, especially to the financially backward section. To cater health services in all possible ways to the citizens of Kolkata, is the prime objective of the Health Department of KMC, through various preventive and curative measures.

Recently, the newly organized Garden Reach Maternity Home with modern equipments and the facility of operation theatre was inaugurated by State Municipal Affairs & Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim.

A newly constructed Health Centre at Sri Kanan in Ward No.113 under Borough-XI and another newly constructed health unit at 3 S.N. Roy Road in Ward.-119 under Borough-XIII was inaugurated on 7 March.

List of Maternity Homes under KMC

North Maternity Home (20 Beds) at 22, Nilmoni Mitra St., Kol – 6, Ward – 17
Champamoni Maternity Home (20 Beds) at 59, Christopher Road, Kol – 46, Ward – 58
Khiddirpore Materity Home (40 Beds) at 34, Ekbalpur Road, Kol – 23, Ward – 77
Garden Reach Maternity Home (20 Beds) at 2B, Dilwarajab Lane, Kol – 24, Ward – 134

45% candidates of TMC in KMC Election are women

Posted on March 9, 2015 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

Trinamool Congress is the only political party which has acted for the empowerment of women in the country by offering more than 33% seats to women candidates.

In the forthcoming Municipal Election of the Kolkata Corporation, the party has given candidature to 66 women out of the total 144 wards, which stand at 45%.

The Women’s Reservation Bill, which is still pending in Parliament, proposes to amend the Constitution of India to reserve 33% of all seats in Lok Sabha, and in all State Legislative Assemblies for women.

12 out of the 34 newly-elected Trinamool MPs are women, which constitute about 35.2% of TMC MPs.

Trinamool Congress has the highest percentage of women MPs in the house, while the 16th Lok Sabha has only 65 women members which is around 11%.

Trinamool announces the candidate list for Kolkata Municipal Corporation Election 2015

Posted on March 8, 2015 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

Trinamool Congress today announced the candidate list for the forthcoming Kolkata Municipal Corporation Election 2015.

There are 144 wards in the Kolkata Corporation. Out of the 144 candidates, there are 66 women candidates and 20 candidates belonging to minority communities. Sovan Chatterjee is the Mayoral candidate for Trinamool.

List of AITC Candidates for KMC Polls 2015

KMC launches country’s first municipal archive

Posted on March 6, 2015 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

In a bid to preserve and narrate the over four centuries old history and evolution of Kolkata, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation authorities have launched a comprehensive archive, complete with rare photographs, texts and digital record.

Taken to be India’s first municipal archive, the ‘Amal Home Digital Archive’ has been developed and curated by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC).

Primarily sourced from the Calcutta Municipal Gazette, published by the civic body since 1924, the content offers insight into India’s freedom struggle through letters and speeches of great personalities like Mahatma Gandhi, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Rabindranath Tagore.

It is named after Amal Home, a tribute to the founder-editor of the Gazette. The records date back to the 17th Century and chronicle the society, economics, the British rule, freedom struggle and other issues during the course of the centuries.

Other nuggets include the original sale deed that shows how much the East India Company paid to purchase the three villages of Sutanuti, Gobindapur and Kolikata, that eventually formed the present day Kolkata.

The archive also contains contributions by researchers, publishers and citizens, who came forward to help with its making.

Since it is India’s first archive built by a civic body, the process involves people from across India who can offer any historical data, photographs of the city.

It also consists of documents related to municipalities in undivided Indian towns, now in Bangladesh, like Dhaka, Rajsahi, Khulna, Barishal, Chittagong and cities which are now in Pakistan like Lahore, Karachi and also Mumbai, Surat, Chennai and Chandannagore which was the French colony in India.

Kolkata soon to become free from open garbage vats: WB CM

Posted on March 4, 2015 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

West Bengal Chief Minister Ms Mamata Banerjee said that very soon, the Kolkata will be free of open garbage vats. She said that KMC has set up 49 compactors around the city to keep it clean from open garbage. Th e city is being cleaned three times a day with the 100 Days Work Scheme being utilized to do so.

The Chief Minister today inaugurated the Jai Hind Community Hall at Harish Mukherjee Road-Kalighat Road Crossing in Bhowanipore, set up by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.

Highlights of the Chief Minister’s speech:

Small ideas can lead to bigger implementations

We have started the practice of songs being played at traffic signals

When we came in power in KMC, we took the initiative to set up decorative street lights

We have beautified other district towns with the same decorative street lights

KMC initiated setting up proper bus stands, pay and use toilets in different parts of the city

I had the idea of decorating Kolkata with blue and white after I visited the Pink City – Jaipur

The Community hall will be of help to people of this ward. I will ask the KMC to set up such halls in other wards too

The Basanta Utsav starts today. We have announced holiday on both Dol and Holi

The Chief Minister wished best to all for a happy and peaceful Basanta Utsav

Bengal Govt celebrates ‘Basanta Sandhya’

Posted on March 4, 2015 | by admin2 | Leave a Comment

West Bengal Chief Minister Ms Mamata Banerjee was present at Basanta Sandhya today – a cultural evening dedicated to the spirits of Holi, the festival of colours.

Held at Nazrul Mancha, the programme was organized by Kolkata Improvement Trust and Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority in association with the I&CA Department, West Bengal Government.

The cultural programme featured performances by Ustad Rashid Khan, Pundit Tejendra Narayan Majumdar, Pundit Bikram Ghosh, Indranil Sen, Subhamita and Rituparna Sengupta.

Incidentally, the West Bengal Chief Minister also inaugurated the Jai Hind Bhavan, a community hall set up by the KMC, at Bhowanipore.