Overview
- Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari led a clean-up at Bagbazar’s Mayer Ghat on Wednesday, where he planted a sapling, performed puja and swept the ghat steps with ministers and KMC officials.
- The Kolkata Municipal Corporation is running a three-day Swachhata campaign that includes a sanitation outreach at the Bhowanipore Health and Wellness Centre and a city marathon from KMC headquarters to the Writers’ Building.
- KMC officials say roughly 20,000 civic workers will be mobilised for the drive and the corporation has launched a new Swachh App to coordinate public reporting and clean-up work.
- Adhikari has publicly pressed for proper implementation of the central Namami Gange programme and pledged expanded ghat and wharf beautification in Kolkata and Howrah to reduce Hooghly pollution.
- Separately, the chief minister warned of strict action after an alleged attack on Falta police station, police have arrested ten people and named the wife of TMC figure Jahangir ‘Pushpa’ Khan as an alleged mastermind.