Sunday, August 4, 2013

World Trade Centre in Kolkata : Plans

Last Friday, I discussed with the Chief Planner of Hidco to make out a proposal for setting up a World Trade Centre on a PPP basis on the prime plot of CBD of New Town where the Iconic Tower is planned. Since both concepts have much in common, a common approach will be useful, we thought.
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The EoI for Eco Island was published on 1st Aug 2013:
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Here is a clipping from today's Times of India:
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Here is a clipping from Anandabazar dt 2nd Aug:
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Here is a link to a video of the cultuural function in Rabindra Tirtha today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EHaVQR9z0I
And here is a still picture:
Vice Chancellor Dr Sabyasachu Basu Ray Chaoudhury came and inaugurated a book exhibition of Viswa Bharati books. A troupe from Viswabharati, Shantiniketan performed Chitrangada.
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17 comments:

  1. Gairick MukherjeeAugust 4, 2013 at 5:22 PM

    Great going, everybody is doing a very good job.

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  2. UnknownAugust 4, 2013 at 9:30 PM

    Tnx

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  3. UnknownAugust 5, 2013 at 12:23 AM

    Sir,

    I am pretty sure that it will done in a perfect way under your dynamic leadership very fast, still to reiterate once more I think we need to process all the required formalities as soon as possible within a very short time.This is a great opportunity to change our image to the people belonging from outside of Bengal.If we can send such a signal to a group belonging from Bombay then it can create a good reputation about WB.People will gradually start believing that West Bengal is changing.

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    1. Gairick MukherjeeAugust 5, 2013 at 1:04 PM

      Well said.

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    2. AbhishekAugust 6, 2013 at 2:52 AM

      Really well said Suparno. WB needs 3 main things at this juncture:

      1. An agile administration with a superb leadership.
      2. Huge number of job creation.
      3. A good PR consultant for brand building like what Narendra Modi did.


      Great things are happening with new generation administrators like Mr. Sen. Sir, it will be great if you can share us some positive news about financial companies expressing interest for taking up space in New Town. I know the last date for submission of bids is 9th October. However any intermittent good news about Finance Centre building or finance hub will also be good to hear.

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  4. Suman ChakrabortyAugust 6, 2013 at 2:52 PM

    Hello Sir,

    Has there been any discussion about a high speed (min 6-lane) freeway connecting the airport to the New Town, bypassing the VIP road. As per my observations, the moment people leaves the new airport and lands at the VIP road, i think much of the satisfactory feeling goes off with garbage dumps, parked shabby buses, people using side roads as toilet, and of course makeshift stalls coming into view. I think if we can bypass those 2-3 kms of VIP stretch before entering New Town, it will save a lot of faceloss. At least, for high-profile visitors to the city, we can directly bring them into the New Town area. If land is a problem, then we can think of an underpass in places where we might have land problems.

    As far as the twin towers, i always thought that in order to be iconic and serve as a landmark, we needed to make it higher. If The Westin can come up with 37 floors, then why do we settle for 20 floors for an iconic twin tower? unless we are dubious about the occupancy.

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  5. UnknownAugust 7, 2013 at 2:39 AM

    Mr .Sen , I think it will be better if we have a tower of 50 Floors minimum, it will jack the state image in India, and help to attract lots of investment.PPP model that is selected is best way to do it.

    You can have a look the link below, if our under construction office (NBK) in Kuwait.

    http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1443000

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  6. Anjan BanerjeeAugust 7, 2013 at 7:36 PM

    Sir,
    Surrounding Apartments are around 15 stories. WTC Towers should be at least 30 stories each. Implementation of the project should start as early as possible.

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  7. UnknownAugust 8, 2013 at 2:59 PM

    Present Tallest Building India

    Imperial Tower - 254m - Mumbai - Resident
    Kohinoor Square- 203m - Mumbai - Mixed use
    The Rubi - 191m - Mumbai - Commercial
    In Kolkata
    South City - 117m - Residential

    Tallest under construction
    World One - 442m - Residential
    In Kolkata
    The 42 - 245m - Residential

    World Trade Center Mumbai-156m - Build in 1970 and was tallest tower in India 1970-2008

    Proposed World Trade Center Kolkata Just 20 floors means around 80m

    Please Build just one Iconic Tower 200m+, in stead of two, may be in ppp model with a budget Rs. 800-1000 crore. That can transform the face of west Bengal.

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  8. UnknownAugust 9, 2013 at 12:22 PM

    The problem is that there is the "Air Flight Funnel" above New Town and so Civil Aviation Department will not permit height beyond a certain point. We of course want to use the maximum height possible

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  9. UnknownAugust 19, 2013 at 12:55 PM

    Sir I think License for WTC in Bengal is already taken, I was looking at the number of WTC in India and in the main WTC New York page (where all WTC in the world are listed), WTC Bengal is listed. WTC only allows one WTC per region, so have you already joined with the license holders and the formalities are complete?

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  10. UnknownAugust 21, 2013 at 4:18 PM

    Very Nice Blog Post!!

    Really World Trade Center is amazing commercial project and their many project running in India.

    Keep update ....

    Thanks

    WTC Noida

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  11. UnknownSeptember 14, 2013 at 7:01 PM

    Hello,
    Very nice information|
    Sunworld Arista is the latest residential project launched by sunworld Group in Noida.

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  12. UnknownSeptember 26, 2013 at 12:18 PM

    Thanks for sharing a very valuable information.

    Keep up sharing...

    World Trade Center Noida

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  13. UnknownDecember 28, 2013 at 12:05 AM

    hello sir, i am an architect student. i have choosed WTC as my thesis project.
    is WTC Kolkata is a on going project or proposed ?
    can u pls attach more info about it ( site ) ?

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