New Town-Rajarhat / Calcutta Research Group

File 1:

(i) Poribesh Dushaner Orthaniti o Rajniti (in Bengali) (2009) -- (ii) Samprotik Kolkata: Porikolpona Unnoyon Uchhed (in Bengali) by Keya Dasgupta (2004) -- (iii) Banglar Shilpo o Sromiker Itibritto (in Bengali) by Naba Dutta (2005) -- (iv) Khadya Andolan 1966 o Ration Bidroho 2007 (in Bengali) by Debangsu Dasgupta (2008) -- (v) Poschimbanger Orthoniti o Rajniti: Amartya Sen er Boktobyo-Amader Jobab (in Bengali) by Pranab Kanti Basu, Prabrit Das Mohapatro and Subhendu Dasgupta (2010) -- (vi) Unnoyoner Kichu Kotha (in Bengali) by Manas Joardar (2009) -- (vii) Majuri Kotha (in Bengali) by Arun Sen and Subhendu Dasgupta (2005) -- (viii) Poschimbonger Shilpayan: E pothe labh kar? (in Bengali) (1996) -- (ix) Uttarbanger Cha Bagan: Ek Onischit Bhabisyater Pratiksha (in Bengali) By Nagarik Mancha and NESPON (2009) -- (x) A Report on Locked-out Factories, Plight of Workers and Urban Space, prepared by Nagarik Mancha under the Independent Fellowship Programme , SARAI (Part-1 & 2) -- (xi) Aien Bhangche Sokar: Aien manar dabi tulche jonogon: Sponge iron Britanto (in Bengali) by Nagarik Mancha (Kolkata 2010) -- (xii) Rajarhate C.P.I theke CPI (M) (1954 saal theke 1972) (in Bengali) by Nilotpal Dutta (Sahar Shimanto, Kolkata, 2009) -- (xiii) Rajarhate Jomi Dakatir Itihas (in Bengali) Ed. by Nilotpal Dutta (Rajarhat Jomi Banchao Committee, Kolkata, 2000)

File 2:
1) Nagarik Mancha Collections: (i) Poribesh bonam Nagarayan (in Bengali) by Nilotpal Dutta in Biponno Poribesh (Nagarik Mancha, Kolkata, 2000) pp.57-76 -- (ii) Unnoyoner onyo Poth: Rajarhat (in Bengali) by Dr. Madhumita Mukherjee in Bipanna Poribesh (Nagarik Mancha, Kolkata, 2000) pp.430-437 -- (iii) Itbhata: Poribesh Somosya o Bikolpo Bhabna (in Bengali) by Ganaudyog (Habra, North 24 Pgs.) in Biponno Poribesh (Nagarik Mancha, Kolkata, 2000) pp. 145-146 -- (iv) The way of the West is Poison by Anil Agarwal in Biponno Poribesh (Nagarik Mancha, Kolkata, 2000) pp. 148-149 -- (v) Land Use and Practices in India: Reinstatement and Displacement of Traditional Knowledge by Debal Deb and A.K.Ghosh in Bipanna Poribesh (Nagarik Mancha ,Kolkata, 2000) pp. 151-161 -- (vi) Poribesh Kon pothe? (in Bengali) By Mohit Roy in Bipanna Poribesh (Nagarik Mancha, Kolkata, 2000) -- (vii) Poribesh Andolon o Kichu Prosno (in Bengali) in Bipanna Poribesh (Nagarik Mancha, Kolkata, 2000) pp. 170-177 -- (viii) Poribesher Biponnota: Globalization er age o Pore (in Bengali) by Sujit Das in Biponno Poribesh (Nagarik Mancha, Kolkata, 2000) -- (ix) Property Rights and sustainability problems: Calcutta Wetlands by Samar Kr. Dutta in Biponno Poribesh (Nagarik Mancha, Kolkata, 2000) p. 458-464 --

2) Documents collected from Sundarban Biosphere Reserve Archive, Aranya Bhawan: (i) Rajarhat” in Chbbish Porgona: (Uttor-Dakshin-Sundarban) (in Bengali) by Kamal Chaudhuri (Deys Publishing, Kolkata, 1999) p. 233-234 -- (ii) Bengal District Gazetteers (24 Parganas) by LSSO Malley, Government of West Bengal, 1998; p. 274-275 and 334-335 -- (iii) Occasional Paper No. 150: Records of the Zoological Survey of India: Wetland faunal resource of West Bengal; Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 1993 p. 42-50 -- (iv) Wetland Ecology: Resource, Research and Conservation: An Indian Scenario, MEPS publishers, Kalyani, 1998; p. 36-39 -- (v) A guide to the birds of Salt Lake, Calcutta and change detection study from a collaboration Project of Parkriti Samsad,Kolkata and Wildlife Circle, West Bengal p. 1-14 --

3) Impact from Demographic Changes

File 3:
Statistical Abstracts: (i) District Census Handbook (Photocopies of Selected Pages) (24 Pgs.) Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal (1981) -- (ii) District Census Handbook (Photocopies of Selected Pages) (North 24 Pgs.) Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal (1991) -- (iii) District Statistical Handbook: North 24 Pgs. Bureau of Applied Statistics, Government of West Bengal (1995) -- (iv) District Statistical Handbook: North 24 Pgs. Bureau of Applied Statistics, Government of West Bengal (1998) -- (v) District Statistical Handbook: North 24 Pgs. Bureau of Applied Statistics, Government of West Bengal (1999-2000) -- (vi) District Statistical Handbook: North 24 Pgs. Bureau of Applied Statistics, Government of West Bengal (2002) -- (vii) District Statistical Handbook: North 24 Pgs. Bureau of Applied Statistics, Government of West Bengal (2003) -- (viii) District Statistical Handbook: North 24 Pgs. Bureau of Applied Statistics, Government of West Bengal (2004) -- (ix) District Statistical Handbook: North 24 Pgs. Bureau of Applied Statistics, Government of West Bengal (2007) -- (x) District Statistical Handbook: South 24 Pgs. Bureau of Applied Statistics, Government of West Bengal (2007) District Statistical Handbook: North 24 Pgs. Bureau of Applied Statistics, Government of West Bengal (2006) -- (xi) Agricultural Statistics at a Glance 2009 (Photocopies of Selected Pages) Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India (2009) -- (xii) Statistical Abstract 2008 (Photocopies of Selected Pages) Bureau of Applied Statistics, Government of West Bengal (2008)

File 4:
Government Reports: (HIDCO & Other Reports): (i) Jyoti Basu Nagar: Kichu Tathya (a report published by HIDCO) -- (ii) Labour in West Bengal 2009 by Dept. of Labour, Government of West Bengal (Photocopies of Selected Pages) -- (iii) District Human Development Report (North 24 Pgs.) 2010 -- (iv) New Town at Rajarhat: A Project Report by Task force, New Town Housing Department, Government of West Bengal (September 1995) -- (v) Status of Environment in West Bengal: A Citizen’s Report; Ed. by A.K.Ghosh; Society for Environment and Development, Kolkata, 2008 -- (vi) Annual Report 2006-07 of the Department of Information and Technology, Government of West Bengal -- (vii) Excerpts taken from HIDCO annual Reports

File 5:
Government Notifications, Orders, Court Affidavits Maps and Miscellaneous items on Rajarhat (collected from Nilotpal Dutta, Rajarhat Krishijomi Bachao Committee):

Map: (i) Map of Rajarhat and surrounding areas -- (ii) Map of the panchyat areas under Rajarhat Panchayat Samiti -- (iii) Map of the Rajarhat (SC) assembly constituency --

Government notifications and court affidavits: (iv) De-requisition of 10.35 acres of land at Mandalganti mouza at Rajarhat (Dept. of Housing) -- (v) Permission sought for by the managing director HIDCO for relaxation of the provisions of the West Bengal Inland Fisheries Act 1984 and West Bengal Inland Fisheries (amendment) Act 1993 for filling up water areas for implementation of New Town Calcutta Project. -- (vi) High Court Petition No. 7516 (W) of 1999 in the matter of Town and Country (Planning and Development) Act 1979. -- (vii) Proposal for setting up Wetland and Wonderland Museum (Directorate of Fisheries Govt. of West Bengal). -- (viii) Letter from the Chief Minister of West Bengal (No. 28-P/CM dt. 9.6.1998). -- (ix) List of Mouzas and Township (given by GM, HIDCO 5.7.2001). -- (x) Environmental Clearance for the Proposal of New Town Project at Rajarhat Calcutta (Dept. of Environment, 10.11.1999). -- (xi) Guidelines for Environmental of Appraisal of New Town. -- (xii) Notification : The Gazette of India (Extraordinary): Ministry of Environment and Forests (New Delhi: 7.7.2004). -- (xiii) Letter from the District Land and Land Development Officer and ADM of North 24-Parganas (13.6.1997) and NOC from West Bengal Pollution Control Board on New Town. -- (xiv) Permission sought for by the managing director HIDCO for relaxation of the provisions of the West Bengal Inland Fisheries Act 1984 and West Bengal Inland Fisheries (amendment) Act 1993 for filling up water areas for implementation of New Town Calcutta Project. (Copy of v) -- (xv) Environmental Clearance of the Remaining Area (Other than Action Area 1 and 2 of the proposed New Town, Kolkata Project) -- (xvi) High Court Petition No. 7516 (W) of 1999 on Public Interest Litigation on Environment (Howrah Gantantrik Nagarik Samity and others vs of West Bengal) -- (xvii) Law Points Involved on the Acquisition of Petitioners Land for the Purpose of Construction of Rajarhat Township. -- (xviii) Details of Agricultural Land in Rajarhat Block. -- (xix) Memorandum given by farmers of Baliguri Village P.S. Rajarhat to the Assistant Director of Fisheries. -- (xx) List of Patharghati Mouza, P.S. Rajarhat (cit no. 1, 2, 3 and 4) -- (xxi) High Court Petition No. 7516 (W) of 1999: Affidavit in the matter of environment clearance for the proposed new town project at Rajarhat. -- (xxii) High Court Petition No. 7516 (W) of 1999: 2nd supplementary Affidavit in the matter of environment clearance for the proposed new town project at Rajarhat. -- (xxiii) High Court Petition No. 7516 (W) of 1999: Reply to the Affidavit – in – Opposition of the Respondent No. 2 (Secretary, Housing Department). -- (xxiv) High Court Petition No. 21583 (W) of 1997: Affidavit in opposition on behalf of the respondent No. 1 (Rajarhat Jami Bachao Committee and others vs of State of West Bengal and others.) -- (xxv) High Court Petition No. 7516 (W) of 1999: In the matter of the new town project at Rajarhat. -- (xxvi) High Court Petition No. 7516 (W) of 1999: Affidavit by the Joint Secretary of the Government of West Bengal (Housing Department) on Environmental Pollution in Rajarhat. -- (xxvii) High Court Petition No. 7516 (W) of 1999: Affidavit in the matter of NOC issued by the State Pollution Control Board. -- (xxviii) High Court Petition No. 7516 (W) of 1999: Affidavit given by the State Pollution Control Board in opposition on the matter of rapid environment impact assessment and consideration of NOC in respect of the proposed township at Rajarhat. -- (xxix) High Court Petition No. 7516 (W) of 1999: Letter of Debobrata Banerjee (Advocate) to the Howrah Ganatantrik Nagarik Samity along with the Affidavit in opposition of the respondent No. 2 (Secretary, Housing Department). --

News Clippings: (i) News Clippings on New Town Rajarhat From Times of India & Sanhati (Kept in a separate CD) (Call No: CD/MCRG/111)
Miscellaneous -- (xxx) The Brave (Bengali News Magazine ) (31 st year no. 1; Dt. 1.1.2011) -- (xxxi) List of Land owners in Rajarhat New Town (Under Government Quota system) -- (xxxii) Performance Audit relating to Government Company. -- (xxxiii) Performance reviews relating to Government Companies.