The city can hope to gain from Union finance minister Arun Jaitley 's announcement of making major investment in infrastructure development for major cities in India. After an analytical studies of the Union budget, a section of the KMC officials is gearing up to send some major infrastructure projects to the Centre under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT). The KMC top brass now wants to submit another major sewerage revamp project under AMRUT. This project aims at cleaning heavily silted trunk (major) sewerage lines from Sealdah station to Palmerbazar drainage pumping station. Currently, the Palta water treatment plant in Barrackpore supplies water till Park Circus area.

Source: Times of India February 02, 2017 01:53 UTC