KMC Kolkata Plans to Beautify the City
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is ahead in giving a new look to its city. All the roads now have median strips dividing the lanes, beautified with colorful saplings. Decorating these medians has been the biggest city beautification drive by the prevailing KMC board. After a success in the pilot project, there are now plans to beautify the city in phases. The KMC is working on city beautification in corporate houses and NGO’s.
Kolkata’s Beautification project apart, the civic body has been harping on beautifying the busy intersections and medians of heavily congested but prominent roads. The KMC parks department has taken into its fold NGOs and corporate houses to carry on the beautification project at different areas. While hoarding agency Blue Dreamz has been entrusted to beautify APC Road, an NGO has been assigned to take up landscaping of Alipore Road. The agency has completed its job on a part of APC Road near Moulali. The NGO also finished beautifying the city pavements on Alipore Road.
The KMC parks department has also decided to rope in traders with roadside showrooms to give a face-lift to the pavements adjacent to their business establishments. A section of traders on Rashbehari Avenue and Southern Avenue has been given approval for city beautifying stretches on their own. A senior official of KMC parks department reported saying, “We are encouraging traders to come forward and beautify the pavements, primarily to discourage rapid growth of hawkers along major thoroughfares,”
Times of India
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