The Supreme Court on Tuesday referred the question of the construction, meaning and import of the term ‘vacant land’ contained in Section 2(q) of the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976 to a.
The CMC has set up a plant to process the construction and demolition waste and build new materials like pavement blocks out of them. While the plant’s operation remains stalled on days owing to low supply of raw materials, demolition waste remains dumped in public spaces across the city
Heavy rain is likely in South and North 24-Parganas and several other districts of south Bengal till October 3. Calcutta does not officially figure in them. But the city is likely to keep getting rain