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Kolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim said on Wednesday that the 'Talk to Mayor' programme is yielding good results and 100 percent of the problems that have been brought to his notice by Kolkata citizens, have been solved. In this programme, people can directly call up the Mayor and state their problems to him on the toll-free number 1800-345-1213, every Wednesday from 4 to 5 pm. The Mayor attended 42 calls on Wednesday and gave necessary instructions to the concerned officials to solve them. Senior civic officials including the municipal commissioner Khalil Ahmed, special municipal commissioner Tapas Chowdhury, all director generals, chief engineers and senior officials of various departments were present during the session. The phone was connected to a loudspeaker to helpthe senior officials listen tothe calls..