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Number of admin board members reduced in DMC
The Statesman Kolkata
|November 08, 2025
The Municipal Affairs department has further trimmed the five-member Board of Administrators of the Durgapur Municipal Corporation (DMC) by scrapping three of its members.
On Saturday, the department had removed Amitabha Banerjee from his post as vice-chairman of the Board, appointing Dharmendra Yadav as his replacement. Yesterday, two more members - Rakhi Tewari and Dipankar Laha - along with Banerjee, were removed, sending shockwaves through the Trinamul Congress's civic body wing.
This story is from the November 08, 2025 edition of The Statesman Kolkata.
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