KOLKATA: The state has given clearance for inauguration of the International Kolkata Book Fair on February 28 and the fair is likely to continue till March 13 if the pandemic situation does not deteriorate.
Earlier scheduled from January 31, the book fair was deferred by a month due to the civic polls. As the state election commissioner pushed back the polls for four municipal corporations — Bidhannagar, Chandernagore, Asansol and Siliguri — by three weeks to February 12 instead of January 22, the book fair at Salt Lake’s Central Park was also deferred for technical reasons.
