KOLKATA, 6 FEB: Despite repeated attempts the Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project (KEIP) has failed to finish the dredging work of Tollygunge-Pachannagram canal (T-P canal) due to illegal settlements. The dredging is necessary to save a vast areas from water-logging during the coming monsoon.

KOLKATA, 29 JAN: Thousands of Kolkatans, including celebrities, today took part in a 10-km-long run to spread awareness for saving the Rabindra Sarobar lake. Tagged as the Great Sarobar Run, the event was organised by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) and the Kolkata Improvement Trust (KIT). The run started from inside the Rabindra Sarobar Stadium and ended at its main gate.

KOLKATA, 23 JAN: At a time when the chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee, has assured to provide a cleaner and greener city, her party leaders are backing a wagon-manufacturing factory on Jamir Lane in Ballygunge which is allegedly polluting the environment of the area. Hapless members of Jamir Lane Residents’ Association have written to the chief minister seeking her intervention. Earlier, local residents shot off letters to the state pollution control board and environment minister Dr Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar.

KOLKATA, 23 JAN: To reduce consumption of electricity the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) plans to install solar power lights in all parks and gardens in the city. A senior civic official said solar light is environment-friendly and it will reduce pollution as well. The decision was aimed at beautifying the parks and gardens.

KOLKATA, 16 JAN: In spite of the allegations of non-performance and corruption in Trinamul Congress-led Zilla Parishad, Trinamul Congress leaders are not worried. They are, in fact, confident that they would win the hearts of the rural people with the distribution of electricity in several villages by March this year.

KOLKATA, 15 JAN: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will revamp its existing garbage disposal system by introducing new compactor vehicles.
The civic body will purchase 20 portable compactors within a month at a cost of Rs 16 lakh each under the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded Kolkata Environment Improvement Project (KEIP). Later, more such compactors will be added to the fleet.

For the first time in the history of Gangasagar mela, the Kapil Muni mandir and ashram has been lit up using conventional power supply. After a long struggle the West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (WBSEDCL) managed to introduce the conventional power supply in Sagar Island a few months ago by setting up three huge towers at Muri Ganga that separates Sagar Island with the mainland. But they managed to provide only 200 kilowatt power for the mela purpose, which is just 20 per cent of the total requirement.

KOLKATA, 12 JAN: A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released a survey report which put 42 per cent of India's children under 5 years as malnourished; the principal advisor to the Planning Commission, Mr Pronab Sen, today said that poverty was not the sole reason for this “national shame”.

Calcutta, Jan. 6: Calcutta High Court today “requested” Coal India Ltd (CIL) to put on hold till January 15 its move to increase prices. “Mind you, this is not an order. We are requesting CIL that if possible, they should not give effect to its December 30 notification in which the company increased coal prices, till January 15,” Justice Pinaki Ghosh said.