Kolkata: The first step to start one of the biggest real estate projects along the Hooghly River is marked on Thursday with an offer invited to premium housing-commercial projects on a 21-hectare plot along the river in Howrah once served as a salt storage area in India , Some of the largest sales agents in the country, including a pair of Kolkata, attended a pre-supply meeting on July 7 and expressed sharp interest in the project.
Owned by train, extensive site in Salkia is only 1.5 km north of Howrah Station.
With the front of 372m in Salkia Road and 323m along Hooghly, it has the potential to be exploited both as a commercial and housing project and can change to one of the most prestigious projects on both sides of the river.
While developers are justified by vibrant, the heritage of sad conservations at the prospect of losing valuable history.
GOVED SALT containing 206 Warehouse Warehouse salt that was built around 1835 also has a large house that serves as a salt commissioner office that enforces salt in 1882 which forbade Indians to collect or sell salt.
This action salt Satyagraha Mahatma Gandhi or Dandi five months a few decades later in 1930.
Invite an offer to rent land for 99 years, the authority of the Development of Railway Land (RLDA), having a legal entity under the Ministry of Railway, has set RS Reserve Prices 448 Crore for the development of 28.5 lakh sq ft on a large plot.
While 80% of the development of the site will be housing, the rest will become commercial.
The deadline for submission of offers is August 29, 2021.
“This will be the development of icons in the city and some of the largest and best developers are expected to participate in the offer.
Around a dozen developers participate in pre-supply meetings.
We will, of course, provide the project to the highest bidder .
Although the initial timeline for development is for three years, we expect large land packages to be developed in stages for five to 10 years.
Approval from various supervisory bodies will take about a year, “RLDA officials.
While cities around the world have developments along the banks of the river, efforts to promote developments along Hooghly have not taken off until now.
In the past three decades, several projects have been proposed for adaptive restoration and reuse or rebuilding the warehouse along the Strand road in Kolkata but has not been executed.
The development of Gols can instill fresh life into the proposal that is still borne.
Deputy representative Rda Ved Parkash Dudeja said development would also allow water sports facilities.
“This project will not only place land to be used better but also increases real estate and leads to socio-economic development in the region, creating many employment opportunities,” he said.
Indian national trustees for the Heritage of Arts & Culture (Intach) which in 2016 coordinated the study of sites and developed reports for reuse of adaptive properties of historic properties Wished Rla was also sensitive to a piece of history while doing its development.
“We have suggested the restoration of the Big Warehouse Warehouse and their repairs so that they can be used effectively.
We have also proposed a multi-purpose cultural hub with artists’ villages, corners of the author, the theater area, various villages of art and crafts and even exhibits and performance centers.
Someone can even see peocating Kumartuli to the project section.
Maybe, it’s not financially interesting.
But the middle road can be explored, “said Intach Kolkata Guze GM Lime.
The offer document states that “the developer must dismantle the structure / building that is abandoned and dilapidated and to dispose of material at their own expense”.