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The literacy rate in Calcutta is increasing. Significantly, the number of working women in the metropolis has also shown a marked rise. The West Bengal government has taken up a serious study of the possibilities of growth of the city in the next quarter century. The CMDA has already started on a comprehensive survey and the findings are startlingly positive in its findings. Incidentally, a similar study had been made 30 years back by Prof Satyendranath Sen, which had been made public while in 1976, another exercise of the same nature had been conducted but which has not seen the light of day. The latest study is thus significant, coming as it does after almost 30 years in the public eye.

The CMDA survey was necessary but what is now required is to build on these findings and allow for programmes, which will move the city forward in terms of both social and economic growth.