KOLKATA: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has started a special desilting drive around Parasnath Jain Temple in Belgachhia to save the 200 year-old temple, a grade -I heritage, from inundation.

The flat-roofed temple has a pillared open porch adjoined by a closed inner sanctum with a circumbulatory pathway. The inner sanctum has a figure of a naked meditating but defaced Jain Tirthankar ...