Transport minister Subhas Chakraborty today pulled out yet another plan from his hat to dodge the deadline to ban two-stroke autos from the streets of Calcutta.
The state government is taking us for a ride. In polluting autorickshaws at that, as no agency in the state is authorised to carry out conversion of in-use vehicles to LPG.
Howrah General Hospital is facing acute scarcity of filtered water with all its water purifiers currently out of order. All the 29 water filters, installed in January 2003, stopped functioning due to lack of maintenance. Most of them are found covered with cobweb and washbasins have almost turned into dustbins.
Employees of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) have decided to oppose the proposal of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to take over a sewage treatment plant (STP) with vacant land and buildings in Baghajatin.
Police along with officials of the civic body, state pollution control board and CESC sealed 11 illegal tanneries in Tiljala, Topsia, Tangra and Karaya on Monday.
The crackdown will continue till all the illegal tanneries have been sealed, said Ajey Ranade, the superintendent of South 24-Parganas police.
Environment activist Subhash Dutta petitioned the high court on Friday to order a CBI probe into the alleged unauthorised felling of 100 trees at the Indian Botanic Garden last month.
