Kolkata, Jan 2 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday asked police, fire department and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to work together to ensure public safety in the city.
During a two-hour meeting with top police and fire officials, she also called for proactive policing in the metropolis for proper maintenance of law and order.
‘Today (Monday) the chief minister held a meeting regarding law and order, security, crime and disasters. She asked every one for proactive policing for public safety and proper maintaining of law and order situation,’ Kolkata Police Commissioner R.K. Pachnanda told reporters after the meeting here.
Pachnanda said Banerjee sought to motivate all present at the meeting to perform their duties more precisely and take immediate action in any incident.
‘She also asked police, fire department and KMC to work together and coherently to cover the whole city,’ he informed.
State Industry Minister Partha Chatterjee was also present in the meeting.
The fire department was kept on its toes on the first day of 2012 as two blazes broke out in different parts of the city Sunday. No casualties, however, were reported.
Tense scenes were witnessed at the bustling Park Street area after a blaze broke out in Apeejay House — a commercial building. The building is close to Stephen Court, where 43 people were killed in a fire in 2010.
The second fire broke out in a garment shop in APC Bose Road area.
Earlier in December 2011, Kolkata has seen its worst fire incident in the history when 93 people, mostly patients, choked to death due to toxic smoke from a pre-dawn fire at the AMRI Hospitals.
