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

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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

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

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.

KMC Clean City project to turn Kolkata vat-free

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Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s solid waste management department is on its way to realize the dream of a vat-free city that they had started nurturing after the introduction of mechanized compactors last year. Aptly christened Clean City programme, this is a boon for the citizens who had for years lived through stench from more than 200 open vats around the city. The open vats are being discontinued.

Once the garbage disposal modernization project is fully implemented, there will be as many as 78 modern garbage transfer stations – located at vantage points of the city – fitted with modern vehicles and equipment. These stations will replace large garbage vats that litter the road.

Currently, there are such station at Kalighat, Southern Avenue, Ballygunge Circular Road, Tallah, Chetla, Northern Park, Samsul Huda Road, Mirza Ghalib Street and other junctures. KMC is striving hard to replace all major vats since there are no less than 150 such vats in Kolkata. This apart, the KMC plans to buy movable compactors to collect garbage from roadside vats.

Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee said that Kolkata Municipal Corporation has taken up a project to turn Kolkata into a “Vat free” city within March 2015.

Around 163 moveable compactors will be set up in all the fifteen boroughs replacing the vats at an estimated cost of Rs 152 crore. The project is expected to be completed by March 2015. Some of the wards under KMC have already got compactor machines. Around 15 such machines have already begun functioning. This is part of a beautification drive for the city, the Mayor said.

KMC has been also planning to extend the time of duty from 5 to 9 p.m. for workers who are deployed to clean the city.