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Kolkata: State Fire and Emergency Services minister Sujit Bose will direct his officials to take up 200 fire audits in a month to speed up the process of fire audits in the city and its adjoining area. It may be mentioned that immediately after taking over as Fire minister in December last year, Bose had laid special emphasis on fire audits. The fire department has done audits in 1400 places and have stumbled upon lapses in fire fighting infrastructure almost in half of these establishments. The minister further said that his department will have 11 temporary fire fighting infrastructure at Gangasagar Mela scheduled next month. Talking on measures taken, Bose said, "We have also taken up awareness among citizens regarding prevention from fire hazards through hoardings and flexes and booklets have also been circulated among school students and people for awareness.".