Calcutta, Jan. 20 :    Calcutta, Jan. 20:  The CPM's Calcutta District Committee today lashed out at the Trinamul Congress-controlled civic board for its 'dismal failure' in all sectors concerning basic amenities. 'The civic board has done nothing to improve the upkeep of the city since it took over the reins in July 2000,' alleged Rabin Deb, CPM MLA from Ballygunje and a CDC secretariat member. Deb said chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was present when former mayor Prasanta Chatterjee placed a resolution in the on-going CDC session highlighting various aspects of the city's development. Another CDC secretariat member, Mohammed Nizamuddin, seconded the resolution. The chief minister had also expressed unhappiness over the quality of civic amenities being provided by the board, according to party sources. Unveiling the CPM strategy to launch a 'sustained' movement in support of its 59-point charter of demands, the MLA from Ballygunje announced that party workers might stage a sit-in in front of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation headquarters, as they did on July 25 last year. The CPM leader, however, evaded a question on whether the party would also ask for mayor Subrata Mukherjee's resignation. 'Let us first mobilise public opinion against the Trinamul Congress-controlled board for scrapping development projects initiated by two former mayors - Kamal Bose and Prasanta Chatterjee,' he said. 'If the people of Calcutta are with us, we can easily launch a vigorous movement against the present board,' he added. Deb, however, vehemently opposed Mukherjee's recent move to reorganise the committees of the 15 boroughs on the plea of initiating decentralisation of the civic administration. Some of the major demands, including the disbursement of Rs 1,827 crore under the mega-city project, however, relate to the BJP-led government at the Centre, said the CPM leader. 'We have already submitted a memorandum to the Union government on the proposed mega-city project, but nothing has been done so far,' he claimed. Deb alleged that those at the helm of affairs in the present board did not draw up any plan to improve the drinking water supply system, or the drainage and sewerage systems in Behala, Jadavpur and Garden Reach. 'The condition of the people of these areas consisting of 41 wards is the worst,' he observed. The CPM leadership's mounting criticism of the civic body is indicative of the party's renewed bid to take control of the board if the Trinamul loses majority in the House. With three Congress councillors, including the mayor-in-council member in charge of markets and street lighting, possibly coming under the anti-defection law for switching loyalties to Trinamul, the CPM, observers say, is keeping close watch on the developments. The CPM-led Left Front has 61 out of 141 councillors. The district committee tonight re-elected Raghunath Kusari as its secretary. An 85-member committee, with 20 new faces, was constituted.