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The establishment and evolution of Kolkata Municipal Corporation followed a long process starting from around the middle of the 19th century. The Municipal Consolidation Act of 1888 and certain steps taken thereafter saw the addition of peripheral areas in the eastern and southern parts of the city to the corporation area.
Godfrey Phillips India Ltd. (GPI) is a tobacco manufacturer headquartered in India. It is now a part of Modi Enterprises . The company is a major player in the domestic cigarette industry.
Salt Lake Electronics Complex (or, Salt Lake Electronic City) (abbr. SALTLEC) is a technology hub in the Sector V of Bidhannagar, Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. Spread over an area of 150 Acres, [1] [2] it consists various electronics and IT parks.
Sector V was planned as a commercial sector of Bidhannagar city. Prior to 1995, Sector V was maintained by Bidhannagar Municipality. But since Sector-V was seeing electronics and IT industry growing fast in the area (due to Salt Lake Electronics Complex), the Government of West Bengal considered to construct an Industrial Township under Section 385A of the West Bengal Municipal Act, 1993.
Major office hubs of Kolkata are located at Kolkata CBD areas like B.B.D. Bagh, Park Street and PBD areas like Salt Lake Sector-V and New Town CBD. The following is a list of notable office buildings, tech parks and business parks present in Greater Kolkata. The list does not contain standard office buildings.
Gerard Philips (1858–1942), founder. The Philips Company was founded in 1891, by Dutch entrepreneur Gerard Philips and his father Frederik Philips. Frederik, a banker based in Zaltbommel, financed the purchase and setup of an empty factory building in Eindhoven, where the company started the production of carbon-filament lamps and other electro-technical products in 1892.
He spent about 8 months at a wireless industry of Webel-Philips in Kolkata before receiving a senior research fellowship from the CSIR, Government of India, and obtained his Ph. D. degree in microwave engineering in 1994. In the same year, Guha was appointed as an assistant professor in Radio Physics and Electronics at the University of Calcutta.
The Circular Rail encircles the entire city of Kolkata, starting and terminating at Dum Dum Junction. Kolkata was the first city in South Asia to have an underground railway system that started operating in 1984. Kolkata Metro is jointly owned by Metro Railway, Kolkata and Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation. It has four operational lines of total ...