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WB CM inaugurates Peace World

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West Bengal Chief Minister Ms Mamata Banerjee today inaugurated the Peace World at Topsia Hindu Burial Ground organized by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.

Set up in the model of the existing Peace Heaven, the Peace World will be totally supervised by the Government and is capable of persevering 24 bodies after death.

A waiting room for the bereaved families, has also been set up in the premises.

State Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Subrata Mukherjee, Fire and Emergency Services Minister Javed Ahmed Khan and Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim will be present on the occasion besides Kolkata’s Mayor Sovan Chatterjee.

 

Highlights of the speech: 

  • I will ask the KMC to beautify the sides of the Hindu Burial Ground by planting flowers
  • We are taking steps to clear this place from traffic congestion
  • KMC completed the necessary works here at the Hindu Burial Ground within 6 months. These are results, not just promises
  • We are doing everything after discussions. Many things were in lackluster state. We are completing
  • We allotted Rs 30 Cr for Bantala to finish the Leather Complex. There is leather industry besides IT industry, pollution is absent
  • Drinking Water Supply system for Jadavpur, Tangra, Dhapa is now in place, same has been done in Chetla, Behala and Joka
  • We thought of making an alternative for Peace Heaven, which is a private concern, some time ago. We needed one more space
  • KMC had done numerous works for burial ground and burning ghats in all round the city
  • I named this place as Peace World. I wish eternal peace for those who passed away
  • This was a very necessary service. No other Corporation thought of this
  • We beautified Kolkata river front, gave shape to Kolkata Eye, set up the Eco Tourism Park, restored Town Hall
  • Kolkata is now a Clean City. It is cleaned three times a day
  • Water logging used to be a big problem. After this Corporation came, the logged water is removed within hours
  • I thank the Nadia administration for setting up the Chaitanya Bhavan at Nabadwip
  • Nadia district has also received awards for developmental works
  • Developmental projects need money. Money is being taken away by the Central Govt
  • We are not asking the Center to give money, we are asking to stop taking away money from us
  • The so called ‘package’ is a bluff. We used to get 61.8%. That is being raised to 62%
  • Development never ends. Be positive and look around to see the positive things
  • There will much more works by the KMC. Among the non-planned cities in the world, I consider Kolkata to be number 1
  • I urge all to maintain peace during Holi

Green Energy for the City Lights

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In a constant effort to serve the public in the best possible way, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation takes another innovative step. As part of its multi-faceted, eco-friendly initiative, KMC has launched the country’s first ‘battery less, carbon neutral Solar Street Lights at one of the city’s favourite public place, the Deshapriya Park.

In the august presence of Sri Manish Gupta, Hon’ble MIC Power & Non-conventional Energy and other eminent personalities, Mayor Sovan Chatterjee inaugurated the path breaking project on 12th February, 2015.

Fifty solar electric posts have been set up at Deshapriya Park each of which will have an 180-watt LED based panel that is equivalent of 400 watts of sodium vapour electricity.

The solar panels will help generate electricity throughout the day and the generated power will be put into the grid. The LEDs will be lighted up with the generated power in the night. An automatic control system has been put in place and the lights will be switched on automatically after evening. It will be a carbon-neutral lighting. This project has been made with an estimated cost of Rs 40 lakh and is expected to bring down electricity bills for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.

Kolkata Municipal Corporation plans developmental projects for future

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Kolkata Municipal Corporation is chalking out various developmental plans to be implemented in the next five years. Continuing with the noteworthy developmental work Kolkata Municipal Corporation has done in the last 5 years, it has now decided to revamp the Corporation School education. The Kolkata Mayor Mr Shovan Chatterjee has already chaired a meeting with the Members of the Mayor in Council in this regard.

KMC has inaugurated six new Montessori schools and eight Higher Secondary Schools. In the past the corporation schools were named after the locality / road it is situated in but now the Corporation has taken the initiative to rename the schools after famous personalities. The schools are also gearing up to admit new students for the forthcoming session. KMC also has plans to recruit new teachers but that only can happen after the municipal vote. KMC now runs more than two hundred and fifty schools in areas under its jurisdiction

Some recent achievements of KMC are installation of composite vats, building new community halls, public toilets and water distribution plants in various parts of the city for convenience and betterment of urban life.

Happy hours on WiFi Street

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Kolkatans logged in merrily on Park Street on Friday, putting to rest all apprehensions about connectivity. Hundreds strolling down the party street, stopping over at restaurants or just passing through the area availed of the free Wi-Fi service launched on Thursday. Most were happy with the service.

Private firm employee Suparna Gupta happened to be on Park Street for a business lunch. The moment she walked out of the restaurant, Suparna remembered that she was in the Wi-Fi zone. She fished out her smartphone and scanned the Wi-Fi option. “And yes, there it was. The network asked me to type out my phone number and the moment I did, a password was SMSed to me. The network speed was good,“ she said.

Ankit Jain, a student, dropped in at a cafeteria for a quick cuppa. The moment he started fiddling with his phone, the Reliance Jionet icon popped up on his screen. “I logged in more out of curiosity . It worked pretty well,“ said Jain.

“It’s been fast and efficient so far,“ said Abhishek Ray , a blogger.

 

This article was originally published in The Times of India, 07.02.2015

Social Media gives high-five for WiFi Kolkata

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Kolkata took its first tottering step towards turning into a Wi-Fi city with a tweet from chief minister Mamata Banerjee, in which she announced turning Park Street into a Wi-Fi zone.

As soon as Mamata went online after inaugurating the service and her message was flashed on a giant screen, hundreds seated in the audience along the southern flank of Park Street attempted to log in.

“We are proud to be the country’s first Wi-Fi city. More than 2,000kms of cables have already been laid and work along just 250300kms is left,” the CM said.

On social media, it was a festive mood. Thousands of messages were pouring in on the official Twitter account of Mamata Banerjee, thanking her for delivering the digital gift to the city.

Here are some tweets:

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The first tweet

 

Wi2

Voice of youth

 

Wi3

 

Sentiment of the city

Wi5

WB CM with the selfie stick

 

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People on Twitter thanking Didi

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Stepping into the future

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Looking forward towards a more empowered generation

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All India Radio’s tweet mentioning the WiFi Launch

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Dignitaries on the stage taking a groupife to mark the launch

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Kolkata’s achievement becomes a reason for pride for Indian’s abroad

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Congratulations and support pours in for Kolkata

WB CM launches ‘WiFi Kolkata’ with a groupfie

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Kolkata is going to become the first fully Wi-Fi enabled city in India. WB CM Ms Mamata Banerjee today inaugurated the first phase of the Wi-Fi services at Park Street.

High speed 4G Wi-Fi service is now available in Park street along with the adjoining areas from this evening. The rest of the city will be covered in a phased manner within the next three months. Salt Lake, Barasat, Rajarhat and Howrah will also be made Wi-Fi enabled, CM announced.

The launch event was attended by WB CM Ms Mamata Banerjee, Honourable Mayor of Kolkata Sovan Chatterjee, ministers, MPs and representatives from Reliance group. The highlight of the launch was a ‘groupfie’ taken by WB CM

At the event, the Mayor of Kolkata made his foray into the world of Twitter with his first tweet using WiFi services:

Here are some pictures from the launch: http://goo.gl/3Aq7b8

WB CM launches the Official Facebook Page of Kolkata Municipal Corporation

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WB CM Ms Mamata Banerjeel today launched the Official Facebook Page of The Kolkata Municipal Corporation in the august presence of Shri Sovan Chatterjee, Mayor of Kolkata; Janab Firhad Hakim, Hon’ble MIC, Muncipal Affairs and Urban Development Departments, Government of West Bengal; Shri Satchidananda Banerjee, Hon’ble Chairman, KMC; Mohtarma Farzana Alam, Deputy Mayor; Members, Mayoral In Council; Councillors; Municipal Commissioner; and other eminent guests.

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation, ever since its inception, has been constantly working to provide the citizens services that are in sync with the times. Social Media is one such service-driven platform that encapsulates the vision, aspirations and demands of the present generation.

It, therefore, helps enable organisations to seamlessly connect with the mass. It is this that KMC wants to accomplish through the Corporation’s Official Facebook presence. It has been designed — not just to inform — but receive meaningful, constructive and proactive reactions from the most important stakeholders — the citizens of Kolkata.

The Official Facebook Page of KMC, apart from keeping the citizens abreast about its various initiatives, will also share several treasures from its archive — giving viewers, globally, a rare window to the city’s history and ethos.

Smear campaign cannot stop good work: WB CM

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today expressed displeasure over a section of the media “conspiring not to project the good work” done by her government and “spreading only negativity”, but said it cannot stop the good work.

“A section of the media can’t see the good work that is being done. They are only highlighting the negative things. I want to say that conspiracy can’t stop the good work done by the KMC and our government. People will give a befitting reply to the canards,” the Chief Minister said.

She asked people to believe in the development that one can see through one’s eyes and not through the news circulated by those “who have opened shops for selling news”.

“The good work done by the KMC is not done on the basis of lectures. It is done on the basis of hard work that we do on the field on a regular basis,” she asserted.

The Chief Minister was speaking at the inauguration of the 15-million gallon water purification and booster pumping station at Chetla in Kolkata.

Ms Banerjee lauded the TMC-led Kolkata Municipal Corporation for the good work that it had done to provide much better services to the citizens of Kolkata.