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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Colour of poriborton? TMC to use MP funds only to paint Kolkata blue

Colour of poriborton? TMC to use MP funds only to paint Kolkata blue

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published Published on Feb 8, 2012   modified Modified on Feb 8, 2012
-The Times of India

Kolkata may be crying for better hospitals and roads, but Trinamool Congress MPs representing the city will now spend their allotted development funds only on beautification. This directive came from Kolkata South MP Subrata Bakshi and was circulated among party councillors on Tuesday, leaving many of them fumbling for words. 

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation is already on a frenzied drive to paint Kolkata blue - because chief minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to make it the city's theme colour. Even trees on Red Road have been painted in enamel blue colour. Now, under Bakshi's new rules, if you paint your house blue and white, you could win yourself a rebate on property tax. 

These guidelines will soon be issued by the city's civic brass, Bakshi told Trinamool councilors at the KMC headquarters on Tuesday. An MP gets Rs 6 crore a year for development projects. Bakshi has already told councilors in his constituency (that was vacated by Mamata) to submit beautification projects. The list of such plans will be sent to Kolkata South MP and the beautification work will start after the necessary modifications, said a Trinamool councillor who attended the meeting. 

The new guidelines unequivocally say that central funds allotted to an MP for area development will instead be used for beautification. 

This includes laying pavements with designer tiles, sprucing up parks and painting flyovers, bus shelters, bridges, lamp-posts and just about everything blue. 

A section of Trinamool councillors expressed surprise over Bakshi's proposal to use MPLAD funds for beautification. 

"We have potholed roads, and poor sewerage and water supply systems. MP grants were meant to be used for slum development, repair of school buildings and other development purposes," said a councillor. 

The mayor confirmed to TOI that such a proposal had come from the south Kolkata MP and was under consideration. Bakshi, however, did not comment on this issue. He said he had come to meet councillors at KMC to discuss development.

The Times of India, 8 February, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Colour-of-poriborton-TMC-to-use-MP-funds-only-to-paint-Kolkata-blue/articleshow/11801183.cms


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