Kolkata: IIT Kharagpur offers Boipara helping hand to beat cyclone blues
The Times of India (June 3, 2020)
KOLKATA: A team of architects and civil engineers, faculty and students of IIT Kharagpur, had been working on a project to revive the College Street boipara (book hub). At that point of time, they had no idea that Amphan would lash the city and many of the makeshift stalls would fall like a pack of cards. Considering the relevance of the project after the cyclone, the IIT team has got in touch with the Presidency Alumni Association and Publishers and Booksellers Guild, both of which are trying to collect funds to bring the book hub back to life.
The project was executed by the IIT-Kgp team as part of a Sandhi project--the ministry of human resources development's initiative to revive the city's heritage. A Sandhi project is already on in the city as the IIT Kgp team has collaborated with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation to revive the Town Hall.
The Boipara revival project is a creative economy experiment where the stalls will be recreated with cost effective building materials, keeping the storage needs of the books in mind. (Read More)