Kolkata, Feb. 23 -- A conference on greening the commercial
establishments was organised by the Indian Green Building Council in
association with West Bengal
HIDCO with an objective to encourage the commercial developments to
adopt green building practices in their new and existing facilities.
The conference held here on Thursday evening was primarily for the
land allottees of New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) so
that the upcoming projects
could go green from design stage while the existing projects could be
converted by means of suitable retrofits.
IGBC chairman Sushil Mohta said Bengal emerged amongst top five
states in India in terms of highest registered green Building
footprints after the
government notified green buildi...