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Calcutta Time was one of the two official time zones established in British India in 1884. It was established during the International Meridian Conference held at Washington, D.C. in the United States. It was decided that India had two time zones: Calcutta (now Kolkata) would use the 90th meridian east and Bombay (now Mumbai) the 75th meridian ...
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is the local government of the Indian city of Kolkata, the state capital of West Bengal. This civic administrative body administers an area of 206.08 square kilometres (79.57 sq mi). [ 2 ]
KMDA's role is multi-disciplinary: it is the agency of city planning, it sculpts new areas and townships, it develops physical infrastructure as well as provide basic services like water, drainage, waste management. KMDA is also the Technical Secretariat to Kolkata Metropolitan Planning Committee (KMPC).
Sustaining Water for All in a Changing Climate The World Bank, 2010, Case Study on water resources in Andhra Pradesh, India. pgs. 73–77. Comprehensive Portal on Water in India: India Water Portal; Solution Exchange:Water Community in India; Water and Environmental Sanitation Network India:WES-Net India Archived 15 February 2021 at the Wayback ...
Tollygunge was merged with Kolkata in 1953. The Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act 1980, which came into effect in 1984, extended the boundaries of Kolkata by including South Suburban, Garden Reach and Jadavpur municipalities in Kolkata. With the addition of Joka to Kolkata, the number of wards rose to 144. [1] [2]
The North Bay Aqueduct, or N.B.A. as part of the SWP has rights to water that originates from the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, storing the water in Lake Oroville and is an underground pipeline that runs from Barker Slough in the Delta to Cordelia Forebay in western Fairfield. From there, the water is pumped to Napa County, Vallejo, and ...
More than 110 years after construction, the tower remains the major water supplier to the city of Kolkata. The water tower, which is claimed to be the world's largest overhead water reservoir, covers 3–4 acres (12,000–16,000 m 2 ), has a capacity of 9.9 million imperial gallons (45,000 cubic metres), stands 110 ft (34 m) off the ground and ...
New Town (a.k.a. Rajarhat New Town) is a planned Satellite city of Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is administered by NKDA (New Town Kolkata Development Authority). [4] New Town is declared as a "Solar City" and "Smart Green City" by Government of India. [5]