Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation will shift the drains in Rajarhat to a network of an underground system, a senior official of the civic body said. At present, areas in Rajarhat, Gopalpur, Arjunpur ...

Broken roads Many roads are yet to be repaired though the monsoon has arrived. In Tollygunge, for instance, Radha Gobinda Nath Sarani was dug up for utility repairs. The soil has been dumped on the d...

Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has started an exercise to develop a database of the existing water drainage network across all its 144 wards. The project is so that officials are aware of the ch...

A market in Jadavpur in south Kolkata has replaced plastic bags with ones made of cotton, the first in a series of initiatives planned by Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to enforce its plastic ban...

“The latest IPCC report has highlighted how networks of parks and open spaces, wetlands and urban agriculture can reduce flood risk in cities. Kolkata is called an ecologically subsidised city b...

Several parts of Kidderpore remain waterlogged during monsoon. The KMC is also planning to set up a drainage pumping station near the point where the boat canal ends. It is preparing a detailed proje...

A councillor on Friday spoke about the woes in his ward that covers a large part of southeast Kolkata and many of them are true for other parts of the Kolkata municipal area as well. Sushanta Ghosh, ...

Residents of the Kolkata municipal area can now give a self-declaration to get their new properties assessed and get a mutation certificate, mayor Firhad Hakim said on Thursday. The owners of new pro...

Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will take up the desilting of an underground sewer between Moulali and Palmer Bazar that could reduce waterlogging in large parts of north and central Kolkata. The...

Dengue scare Dengue is a bigger phenomenon now than corona, the civic body representative said. Typhoid is also on the rise. “We fog an area every eighth day.” But the civic workers faced...