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The Haringhata counter on Bentinck Street. (Bishwarup Dutta)

The Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC), it seems, is withdrawal no mill unturned to give a city’s cluttered pavements a makeover.

A small some-more than a year ago, sidewalks in some neighbourhoods were ripped adult and paved with paving slabs. But given a disproportionate and undulating surfaces of a pavements, many of a slabs came loose, and shortly pedestrians had to beware of pitfalls during each step.

Various supervision and private agencies done matters worse as they dug adult a pavements to check or lay sewerage lines, energy lines or H2O connections. The agencies never worried to put behind a paving stones in place, and immeasurable stretches incited into gutters, mostly ensuing in fractured skeleton and pratfalls.

A few weeks before a elections, a CMC began to pave a sidewalks of executive Calcutta with appealing slabs. This time, however, a slabs were not cemented to a ground. They were laid with usually a covering of silt underneath them.

On a certain widen of Bentinck Street, primarily they laid a slabs and afterwards remembered that they had lost a unclothed rectangles underneath a dual booths — one from that “Haringhata milk” (Central Dairy of a Bengal government) was sold, and a other authorised to work there for no transparent reason.

The rickety Haringhata counter is used for each other reason (as a available cover for those responding a call of nature, for example) though offered divert and it was uprooted about a week ago. The distortion lies on the behind now, though will it be reinstalled as a vestige of Haringhata’s past?