Kolkata, Oct 21 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee had to wait for an hour today due to
malfunctioning
of a lift at the makeshift 15-storey state secretariat
'Nabanna'.
Banerjee reached 'Nabanna' in
Howrah district at 11.45 am
as employees queued up for the general lifts designed for
slow
movement as the building was originally built to house a
garment park.
The queues were particularly long
as one of the general
lifts was out of order.
Banerjee, whose office is on the
top floor, allowed
employees to use the two VVIP lifts to their offices while
she
waited on the ground floor for an hour.
She cautioned the department
carrying out the repairs of
the disabled lift to speed up work.
"Since the elevators at
Nabanna were originally meant for
carrying goods, they are very slow," PWD Secretary
Indevar
Pandey said.
There are five lifts -- 2 VVIP
and three for employees --
with each able to accommodate 12 people.
The state government is taking
the help of German
technology to make all lifts at Nabanna faster for better
movement of employees and visitors.
The speed of passenger lifts will
be increased from 1
metre per second to 1.5 metre per second, for goods
elevator
0.5 meter per second to 1.00 meter per second and VVIP
lifts
will also be made faster accordingly.
Employees and visitors have been
facing acute problem in
reaching departments since the inauguration of the building
because of the slow lifts. PTI AKB PC
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