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WBIDC
Signs MoU With Boston Pledge In Kolkata To position
Kalighat Temple as Heritage Spot
ET&T staff /Kolkata
In a bid to promote the famous Kalighat temple, The
Boston Pledge (TBP), a North American-based organisation
of NRIs has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) with the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation
Limited (WBIDCL), the nodal industrial body of the state
government, to give the temple its much needed facelift.
Somnath Chatterjee, the chairman of WBIDC and Mridul
Pathak, senior representative of TBP signed the dotted
lines on behalf of both the parties. As per the terms
of the MoU, TBP would take up three ambitious projects
in association with the state government and other government
agencies for all round development of the state. One
of the projects being the Rs 60-crore ‘Urban Renewal
Programme’ in the Kalighat area under, which it
would turn it into an ‘environmental paradise’.
Speaking to Express Travel & Tourism on behalf of
TBP, Pathak said, the Kalighat project would include
repairs and restructuring the entry and exit of the
temple, uplift the banks of the Tolly Nullah, restoration
of its much-acclaimed ‘atchala’ architecture
and providing a ‘green cover’ to the adjoining
areas along with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC),
Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) and
other such government agencies. The basic objective
of the MoU would be to project the temple as a heritage
tourist spot of the city.
The work on the project is likely to start by the year-end
and fund collection
for the project would start by
April this year, Pathak concluded.
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