Kolkata air pollution control

Kolkata air pollution control
ENVIRONMENT NEWS

Fulfilling Mayor Subhas Chandra Bose’s ninety years old promise tops Mayor Firhad Hakim’s New Year resolution for Kolkata

Mayor Firhad Hakim has a New Year resolution; to fulfill the dream that city’s fifth Mayor Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had over 90 years back. Subhas Chandra Bose was elected Mayor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation in 1930 after serving as chief executive officer under Mayor Chirraranjan Das in 1924. “When Netaji Subhas Bose was the

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ENVIRONMENT NEWS

A forecast-based action plan to combat Kolkata’s ever increasing air pollution is the need of the hour, says experts

The model of ‘graded response action plan’ (GRAP), announced by the Bengal environment minister Manas Bhunia recently, to counter air pollution in Kolkata and five more polluted cities in the state has already been “scrapped” in Delhi where forecasting based GRAP model is presently followed; observed experts. “The model of GRAP, that is imposed when

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