Yesterday there was the eastern region review meeting on BSUP (Basic Services for the Urban Poor) and RAY (Rajiv Awasan Yojana) at ITC Sonar Bangla. This was taken by Ms Kiran Dhingra, Secretary to GoI (MoHUPA): her exposition on RAY was very useful. There was this small avoidable incident over a comment by xxx (.."you are lying"...) when Mayor Asansol Municipal Corporation was speaking at the podium; Mayor was saying that his sanction under BSUP was reduced unilaterally by KMDA without asking them.
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The evening before, I joined Ms Dhingra and the GoI team at dinner at ITC (Pan asia). Food was very good.
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Yesterday evening, Star Ananda took a "byte" our decision to waive off fees for unemployed youths to use residential land at Salt Lake for non-residential purposes. Today's papers also carried a story quoting the minister.
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Today evening we had an interaction with Louis Berger group on their study "Designing Green Urban Spaces for West Bengal". DFID was also there.
(Posted at Kolkata Airport)
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