Salt Lake-Barrackpore drainage set for upgrade
A neighbourhood right next to Kolkata is getting a cleaner and visually uplifting drainage and sewerage system with covered drains and underground pipelines replacing the open, stinky and polluting drains in large parts of Panihati, Khardah, Titagarh and Barrackpore by the end of next year. For long, residents living in municipalities north of Kolkata have been demanding covered drains. On both sides of BT Road, Barrackpore-Barasat Road, MB Road and Kalyani Expressway, where several residential complexes have come up in the last two decades, the open drains were an eyesore.