kolkata with a resurgent bjp breathing down its neck the trinamool congressrun kolkata municipal corporation board is rolling out a rs 400 crore development plan mostly to complete projects that are in the backburner before the city goes to the polls in may 2015 the desperation of the ruling party is evident from the fact that it has taken rs 155 crore from the state government for this lastminute rush the rest of the money is coming from kmc revenue mayor sovan chatterjee on friday held a meeting with his council members to finalize the projects and deadlines keeping in view the forthcoming civic elections several mayoral council members believe trinamool will face stiff competition from bjp next year and the only alternative is to woo kolkatans with a slew of development projects particular emphasis will be on wrapping up pending infrastructure work trinamool hopes that completing the dhapa water treatment plant on em bypass will be its trump card it can deliver 100 million gallons of water a day but is running way behind schedule once complete this would be a boon to lakhs along the entire length of em bypass from ultadanga to garia that has seen an astounding real estate boom in the last decade people moving into the swanky apartment complexes built here are frustrated by the long wait the mayor on friday announced an allocation of rs 45 crore for construction of booster pumping stations that will carry filtered water from the dhapa plant to large areas in beliaghata