Bengal Govt gearing up to turn historical towns into heritage cities

Kolkata, Oct 4: The State Tourism Department has decided to turn each of the well-known historical towns of Bengal into a ‘heritage city’. Cooch Behar, with its royal palace and famous lake (Lal Dighi), and 2, with its cultural heritage linked to Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, are first on the list, a tourism official today said. The State Government has appointed IIT Kharagpur (for Cooch Behar) and IISER Shibpur (for Nabadwip) to prepare detailed project reports (DPR). The renovations and modernisations of the tourist sites and facilities would be taken up based on the DPRs. Work is expected to begin this year itself. Among the areas to be looked into are the electricity and sewage systems of the places. Similar steps would be taken up gradually for the other famous places in the state, he added. UNI