Supratim Sarkar is the new police commissioner of Bidhannagar Commissionerate. He has taken over from Mukesh Kumar. Kumar has now been posted as DIG Barasat range.

Before this, Sarkar held the post of additional CP-II in Calcutta Police and had earlier served as the North 24-Parganas superintendent of police from 2007 to 2009.

The shuffle is in line with the Election Commission’s stipulation that no officer should be in the same post for more than three years during the polls.

In Salt Lake, the inspector-in-charge of the Bidhannagar South police station was replaced. Saikat Ghosh has also joined as the deputy commissioner, traffic, a few days ago.

Vaccination begins

Surya Pratap Yadav, deputy commissioner, headquarters, takes the vaccine at Calcutta Heart Clinic Sourced by the correspondent

The vaccination drive of Bidhannagar Commissionerate began on Wednesday.

The early recipients of the vaccines included deputy commissioner, headquarters, Surya Pratap Yadav, deputy commissioner of police, Bidhannagar, Umesh Ganpat and assistant commissioner of police, north, Shantanu Koar.

The officers were administered the Covishield vaccine at Calcutta Heart Clinic. Henceforth policemen and women will be administered vaccines from both the Calcutta Heart Clinic and the Salt Lake sub-divisional hospital.