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June 24, 2025

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to rename a stretch of road at EM Bypass after the industrialist and philanthropist Sunil Kanti Roy.

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According to sources in the civic body, the KMC has decided to name the stretch of road from the connector of EM Bypass in front of Peerless Hospital and B K Roy Research Institute. The new name is to be given after the former managing director of Peerless group following a request from the company's MD. The request is said to have been approved by the advisory committee for naming streets in Kolkata and by the members'-mayor-in-council meeting.

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