KOLKATA: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee could finally move out of her Kalighat point south Kolkata, wherever she has lived since birth, and shift to a palatial building in stylish Alipore space, apparently on the recommendation of an astrologist.
The building on Belvedere Road — the address of high industrialists of the town — currently is the Borough IX workplace of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC). Sources said the chief minister has been toying with the thought ever since an astrologist urged that she shift her workplace and residential to the west of stream Hooghly. She has already touched into workplace across the Hooghly, in Mandirtala in Howrah.
If Mamata shifts to Alipore, her new home are going to be a stark distinction to her gift one on Harish Chatterjee Street, a brief walk from the historic Kalighat temple. The Alipore building is on a sprawling two-acre land with 8-10 rooms, a large room and a hall. Mamata shares the Kalighat house together with her brothers’ families.
Sources said urban development minister Firhad Hakim, a former Borough IX chairman, visited the building on saturday to require stock of the infrastructure. The South 24-Parganas SP’s workplace, a railway workplace, the Command Hospital and Agri-Horticultural Society of India are within the neighborhood.
A team of officers from the administration and also the civic body was alleged to visit the building on Monday, however it had been delayed at the last moment, sources said. A civic official confirmed that the move hasn’t been shelved. “The proposal remains being thought of and that we are asked to search out an acceptable place for shifting the borough workplace,” he said.
The move hasn’t gone down well with a neighborhood of KMC officers. “We got to shift many departments as well as technology, health, conservancy and building. This apart, the newly-set up e-centre within the borough workplace has been running with success. people come back here to pay their land tax, trade licence fees and building sanction fees to skip the long queues at the civic headquarters (in central Kolkata). it’ll be tough to shift these facilities while not finding an appropriate substitute,” said a civic official.
