Souvenir Centre & Smarter City

We opened up another entry to Eco Park yesterday. There is a Visitor Plaza here that will orient visitors to first acquaint themselves with Eco Park, guide on what to do and see inside and also to be a meeting point and adda zone for friends. While other facilities including e-banking will come in this plaza gradually, we opened a souvenir centre yesterday itself. One can buy mementos from the centre. I myself bought as the first customer a set of six picture postcards. Here they are:

Set of six picture postcards available at Sovenir Centre at Gate 4

 Here is a view of the plaza from the gate at main road:

Visitor Plaza

Here is a press clipping:

Khabar 365 dt 2 Aug 2014

Ebela dt 2 Aug 2014

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I was happy to attend today an event at City Centre 2 at New Town Kolkata launching Eastern India's first SBI-IN-TOUCH e-banking store. I was happy that it was a step forward towards making New Town a Smart City. Asctress Koel Mallick and footballer Baichung Bhutia were the star attractions. A photo on my Sony camera:

At City Centre 2, Rajarhat

On my return after the event, I walked past the new computer Gaming Centre at Eco Park and discussed with Rateira how to make the Game Zone more attractive. A reflection photo:

Photo of the door to Gaming Centre:
See bottom right (circled in red): my reflection

New Town Bulletin dt 1 Aug 2014

While walking, I also noticed that works on Wax Museum across Eco Park was progressing:

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In the morning, I attended a programme of WBIDFC and Bharat Sevasram Sangha at Rabindra Tirtha. It consisted of distribution of cycling and training certificates to village youth around New Town. The programme / training was organised by Bharat Sevasram Sangha while the funding was by WBIDFC under CSR:

At Rabindra Tirtha this morning