On record
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation began building a "mega" skywalk to Kalighat Temple in 2021, displacing hawkers from the temple approach road and temporarily relocating around 195 traders to makeshift units at Jatin Das Park. Traders were told they would return to permanent stalls within 18 months, but the project dragged on for four years before keys to the new multi-storey market building were finally handed over on March 27, 2025.
The official record states: "Not specified: no public explanation was given for the repeated delay beyond the project "taking time for completion.""
“Two hundred traders were moved for a temple skywalk that then took four years to walk to.”— Blunderlust Editorial Desk
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Visitor reviews Satire
“Nearly two hundred traders were moved off the temple road and told eighteen months. They got four years in tin sheds.”
“Walked up to Kalighat temple past the skywalk that displaced the hawkers who used to line the route.”
“The keys to the new market building were handed over in March 2025, which is one way to mark an anniversary.”
