100 pc attendance at govt offices in WB on bandh day

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is against the bandh and had
warned government employees from remaining absent, said attendance at
the state secretariat, Writers' Buildings, was 100 per cent. Finance
Minister Amit Mitra said that his department also registered 100 per
cent attendance. Many government employees stayed overnight in their
offices.

Bandh supporters took out processions in some areas. Commissioner of
Kolkata Police Surajit Karpurakayastha was on the roads in the morning
to review security. "Everything is normal. There is enough police," he
said.

Trains services in the Howrah and Sealdah divisions of Eastern Railway
remained more or less normal, though there was some disruption in
Sealdah South due to squatting by strike supporters in the morning,
railway sources. Metro Rail services in the metropolis was normal as
also flights at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.
Rediff