``Calcutta is not a dying city, but the Left Front Government is trying hard to set its clock back,'' the Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee said here on Tuesday at a function to celebrate city's 308th birth anniversary.

Strongly refuting the suggestion that ``the city is collapsing under the burden of filth, squalor, frequent bandhs and unplanned growth'', the Trinamool Congress leader said: ``The city is vibrant and lively, and you cannot blame the city for its ills that it has come to be associated with under the LF rule.''

Speaking to the press after the function, she said: ``Let the State Government learn from the governments of other states how to keep the city clean.''

Asked if her party has ``drawn up any special plan for the city,'' she said: ``We may have several plans, but it is the State Government's responsibility to bring about a total revival of the city which has suffered most during its two-decade rule.''

Earlier, Mamata Banerjee, who addressed a function, organised by the Trinamool Congress' local unit of North-West Calcutta, which had sent Sudip Bandopadhyaya to Lok Sabha in the last parliamentary election, said that ``if we want the city to grow, we must give up politics on the issue of the city's revival plans.''

Blaming the LF Government for neglecting the development of the city, Mamata Banerjee said the State Government had done nothing to improve the infrastructure of the city which would have made this historic and important megapolis into an attractive proposition for the investors.

Hitting the LF where it hurts most, she said: ``Lack of modern infrastructure is an important reason why the investors do not see any credibility in what LF has been claiming on the issue of industrial development.''

Meanwhile, as several organisations begin city's birthday celebrations, transporters' strike made life difficult for the Calcuttans. Taxis, private buses and other privately-owned transport have kept off the roads over their various demands. The bandh appeared set to add to the trouble with even petrol pumps joining the private transporters.