Summary:
Most importantly, KMC has overnight transformed some of its multi-storeyed buildings to provide shelter to such people. One such four-storeyed buildings in on Kalighat Temple Road where more than 350 pavement dwellers from different parts of the city were put up. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has also stated that KMC and police have made arrangements for pavement dwellers at the civic body's 27 night shelters. People present at the spot said that Mayor and the state Urban Development and Municipal Affairs minister Firhad Hakim visited the shelter on Wednesday night. On Thursday afternoon too, an assistant sub-inspector from a police station in North Kolkata was found taking three pavement dwellers to the shelter..