ABSTRACT
Dreams around Monetisation of Land in Rajarhat: A Project Report Before the gold-diggers came, the messengers arrived with the information that gold was lying around in Rajarhat hither and yon. Thus, before the architects and planners were deployed, the government took the decision in 1993 to execute the great land loot. The age of liberalisation, globalisation and reforms had just begun. The Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) in any case had been the agent of investment-centric urban developmental wisdom and policy for a long time — aided and abetted by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
