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On October 23, 1998, Mamata Banerjee, along with her supporters, squatted on the Southern Avenue to prevent policemen from evicting the illegal occupants of the building. Her supporters threw stones at police and disrupted traffic when a rumour that Mamata Banerjee has been attacked spread. Today, the state government had invited Mamata Banerjeeand other TMC leaders like Javed Khan and Sovandeb Chattopadhyay at the programme. None, however, turned up.
The Kolkata Circuit House has been built on 13 kottah of the 58 kottah plot of Bedi Bhavan. Fort Group, the private patner, paid Rs 18 crore for the remaing land and construction of the five-storeyed building. Asim Dasgupta said the guest house will be of great help to the state government, as it had to incur huge expenses for boarding and lodging of official state guests.
The state Finance Department spent Rs 2 crore on the guest house. Chief Secretary Asok Mohan Chakrabarti, who was caught dozing off by the lensman at the programme, said there was a need for proper maintenance of the guest house. He said most officials did not want to go to the state-run guest houses because of the poor maintenance. He urged the officials to ensure that the guest house served the interests of those who came to the city for work.
Meanwhile, Rezzak Mollah said the entire digitised map of land records, along with the map of the state, has been stored in the guest house. Officials of the Land and Land Reforms department said each room will have five-star facility with access to Internet, a reading room, a small fridge and intercom facility. The building will have a GIS hall for land records and a conference hall. Certain facilities at the guest house, like the kitchen, have been outsourced.
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