The Kolkata Christmas Festival 2022 was inaugurated on December 21 by chief minister Mamata Banerjee in the presence of Archbishop of Kolkata Thomas D’Souza, Bishop of the Calcutta Diocese of the Church of North India (CNI) Paritosh Canning, Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brian; West Bengal minister of tourism Babul Supriyo, Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim, West Bengal Minorities’ Commission vice-chairman Shane Calvert and others.
The themed lighting begins from St. Xavier’s College on Park Street and stretches up to Jawaharlal Nehru Road at one end and the Mullickbazar crossing on the other. The area around St. Paul’s Cathedral on Cathedral Road has also been lit up. Artists from Chandannagar are hired for the illumination