MOHUN BAGAN TEAM IN KALIMPONG
Since a week Mohun Bagan Bagan Team is in Kalimpong, It will play an exhibition match against the Kalimpong Sports Association (KSA) XI at Mela Ground on Wednesday August 5 . They are here for a weeklong camp and will be staying at the Deolo Tourist Lodge of the DGHC.
Cop boss warns Morcha brigade-GLP cannot check man or car: Tamta | ||||||||
TT, Bureau,Aug. 4: Police have decided to crack down on the Gorkhaland Personnel, a cell of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, if the uniformed youths are found stopping and searching vehicles plying in the hills. K.L. Tamta, the inspector-general of police, north Bengal, said: “They have no constitutional right to check any individual or vehicles. Even the army and the paramilitary forces are not entitled to search randomly, then how can the GLP have any right?” Morcha president Bimal Gurung had yesterday announced that the party would “deploy” the GLP on NH31A along the Sikkim border to check the inflow of “illegal liquor and timber” into Darjeeling. He said it was the right of each individual to stop illegal activities. So long, the GLP had been engaged in enforcing a Morcha ban on gutka and smoking in public places in the hill towns. They also volunteered to clear the debris after the landslides struck the hills in May. “If the GLP is found checking any vehicle, we will immediately book them for obstructing roads, wrongful confinement and extortion. These are the minimum charges we have in our mind,” said Tamta. Despite Tamta's announcement of action, many reported that GLP members were checking vehicles along various routes. A group of 15 tourists from South Korea, returning after a trek in West Sikkim, was stopped by a GLP patrol at Third Mile, 10km from Kalimpong. Liquor bottles found in their luggage were seized. Kipa Tshering Bhutia, the leader of the GLP group that stopped the Koreans, said that they had been eventually allowed to carry the liquor. “They were visitors and did not have any intention of using the liquor for commercial purposes. However, we seized 10 cases of beer and hard liquor from vehicles coming from Sikkim,” he said. One of the guides accompanying the tourists said he had called up some Morcha leaders in Darjeeling. “They returned the liquor as their bosses had told them that tourists were not to be disturbed,” the guide said. The GLP has been functioning as a parallel administration in the hills from the time Gurung’s party called a strike on July 13. In fact, more GLP members were seen in town than the police personnel during the 13-day strike period. The Morcha had initially said the GLP would be engaged for crowd management at party rallies and disaster management, to help control traffic and trained in martial arts but not in fire arms. “The GLP is like the RSS. We are not challenging the police but only using the GLP to control our own rallies and ensure that our supporters do not create law and order problems,” Binay Tamang, the assistant secretary of the Morcha had said earlier. Tamta’s decision to crack down on the GLP seems to be a move to impose the writ of administration in the hills at a time when the Morcha cell of volunteers is trying to function as a quasi-legal force. Asked if the police had made any attempts to stop the GLP activities in the past, Tamta said: “We received a complaint (of assault) against the GLP on July 30. I immediately went to Rangpo the next day and found that the GLP had occupied a community hall at the Tenth Mile. I moved in two companies of police to the hall.” A Sikkim Nationalised Transport driver Aitaraj Pradhan had filed the complaint saying the GLP had beaten him up. Colonel (retired) Ramesh Allay, who heads the GLP, said the driver was intoxicated and possessed marijuana. “We told the SNT about him, but no one beat him up.” The directive comes a day after the former chairman of the Darjeeling Municipality signed cheques, withdrawing the salaries for the staff despite the government dissolving the board and giving the signing authority to the subdivisional officer heading a four-member board. The former chairman, vice-chairman and a member of the directorate of local bodies are the other members of the board. The signature of Pemba Tshering Ola on any civic document is invalid, district magistrate Surendra Gupta had said yesterday. The cheques with Ola’s initials were honoured by the State Bank of India, Darjeeling branch, as it had not been given any instruction to the contrary by the administration. Ola today reiterated that the old board would continue to discharge its functions till elections were held. The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, which is spearheading the Gorkhaland agitation and has all the civic councillors as its members, has linked the municipality elections to the implementation of a three-tier panchayat system in the hills. The party has rejected the government’s arrangement for the civic bodies of Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong whose five-year tenures expired on July 14. Ola said the councillors had written to chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, apprising him of their decision to continue with the discharging of functions. The former chairman claimed that in the past, the government had always consulted the party in power in the hills before making any interim arrangements. “When Subash Ghisingh did not conduct the elections to the DGHC, the government took a decision in consultation with the party in power (GNLF). But despite the Morcha being in control of the municipalities, the government has not consulted our leader, Bimal Gurung,” said Ola. He also said the residence certificates he had signed yesterday had to be valid. “Since the SDO cannot identify a resident of the area, it will be our duty to issue these certificates,” said Ola. GJM forcibly takes over 3 MUNICIPALITIES Siliguri, Aug 4 (PTI) The Gorkha Janamukti Morcha has forcibly taken over all the three municipalities in the Darjeeling hills and begun running them, District Magistrate Surendra Gupta said today. The West Bengal Municipal Affairs Department has been informed about Darjeeling, Jurseong and Kalimpong municipalities being taken over illegally by the GJM yesterday, Gupta told PTI. After ''taking over'' administration, former chairperson of Darjeeling Municipality Pema Tsering signed official papers and disbursed salary to the staff. Tsering told reporters that the GJM had taken the responsibility of civic boards "in the greater interest of the people as the boards formed by the government were not functioning properly". All councillors of the "dissolved" civic boards, she said, would continue to function as before. The district magistrate said no directive to take action has yet reached the administration. The election to the municipalities and panchayats in Darjeeling on July 14 could not be held as none filed nomination. The GJM had decided not to participate in the polls as the government as it did not accept Morcha''s demand for three-tier panchayat polls. TT, Alipurduar, Aug. 4: Mass erosion from the RSP ranks in the Kalchini area has prompted the party’s central committee member and state PWD minister Kshiti Goswami to camp in town for the past few days to carry out a damage control. Kalchini is among the 11 Assembly seats in the state that will go to bypoll later this year after it was left vacant when the RSP’s sitting MLA won the Alipurduar Lok Sabha seat. Tirkey’s selection as the Lok Sabha candidate, bypassing the four-time sitting MP Joachim Buxla had sparked off widespread protests among the party cadre and workers. Goswami’s visit coincides with Buxla’s wife Malati Buxla, along with three RSP Kalchini panchayat samiti members joining the Trinamul Congress last week. Buxla had contested the Lok Sabha polls as an Independent and had lost. However, soon after that Buxla joined Trinamul. Since Sunday, Goswami, along with RSP minister Biswanath Chowdhury have been holding discussions with party workers. They spoke to grass roots workers as well as local and zonal committee members in Kalchini. “I have told them to inquire sincerely as to why the situation came to this. If the panchayat samiti members in Kalchini have left the party, there must be some problem,” Goswami said here today. He also voiced concern about the growing presence of the Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad and the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha in the Dooars. “The Kalchini bypolls will be tough this time with the Morcha and the Parishad around. They could cut into our votes.” Buxla said the RSP had lost its credibility among the party workers because of a lack of transparency. “Soon after I left the party about 300 workers joined Trinamul.” One of the panchayat samiti members who left the RSP said that last week Malati Buxla’s nameplate as the Opposition leader in the rural body had been replaced with that of Philip Khalko. “Once again the party did this without informing us and that is why we left the party in protest and joined Trinamul,” she said. The Kalchini panchayat samiti is run by a Congress-led board. With the four defections from the RSP, the Left Front has 11 members while the rivals have 20. Former RSP leader seeks to return SNS,JALPAIGURI, 4 AUG: Former RSP Kalchini gram panchayat samiti member Mrs Sunita Lakra, who had deserted her party to join the Trinamul on 29 July, has expressed desire to return to the RSP fold. She has also alleged that the former Alipurduar RSP MP, Mr Joachim Buxla's wife, Mrs Maloti Buxla, had coerced her to leave the RSP and join the Trinamul. Mrs Lakra has written a letter to the Kalchini BDO expressing her intention to rejoin the RSP. The BDO has forwarded the letter to his higher authority.
Mrs Lakra and three other RSP members of the Kalchini panchayat samiti joined the Trinamul with 400 RSP supporters on 29 July but now she wanted to return to the RSP. “Mrs Buxla and some other Trinamul leaders forced me to leave the RSP and also to join the Trinamul. I was misled by them but now I want to rejoin my former party,” said Mrs Lakra.
Commenting on the issue, RSP leader of Kalchini Mr John Philip Xalxo alleged that Mr Joachim Buxla threatened Mrs Lakra to join the Trinamul.
“Mrs Lakra is a para-teacher of a Kalchini based school and Mr Buxla is a member of the school management committee. Taking advantage of his position Mr Buxla forced her to join the Trinamul. Mr Buxla had also confined her in his house for some days to suppress the truth Mrs Lakra finally returned home on 1 August,” claimed Mr Xalxo.
Rejecting the allegations, Mr Joachim Buxla said that Mrs Lakra took shelter in his house fearing retribution from the RSP supporters. “I never forced her to join the Trinamul,” he said.
The Youth Trinamul Congress Kalchini block committee president, Mr Ganesh Mahali conteralleged that the RSP leadership had threatened Mrs Lakra with dire consequences unless she returned to the RSP.
The ADM Jalpaiguri Mr NG Hira said that Mrs Lakra should file an FIR concerning her complaints. “The district administration has nothing to do with it,” he said. Tribal body to monitor school SNS, JALPAIGURI, 4 AUG: Under pressure from the Akhil Bhartiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad, the Hashimara Hindi High School authority has dissolved the school's management committee.
ABAVP activists assaulted the school's headmaster yesterday and raised several charges including misappropriation of funds, against him. According to the ABAVP Jaigaon-Hashimara regional committee secretary, Mr Raju Bara, the headmaster Mr Samiran Sikdar along with four other members of the school managing committee, approved the proposal to dissolve the body, yesterday. “The school managing committee has been dissolved and we demand that the students’ guardians elect a new managing committee. Until the election, the ABAVP leadership would monitor all development works in the school. A monitoring committee would be formed for the purpose,” Mr Bara said.
The leader added that they have filed an FIR against the headmaster at the Hashimara police outpost on charges of misappropriation of school funds like school development fund, student book grant etc. “Mr Sikdar also deprived the poor students from several facilities and charged money from them illegally. We have asked the police to arrest him immediately. We would demonstrate in front of the Hashimara police outpost tomorrow to press our demand,” he stated. The ABAVP has sought an administrative inquiry into the authenticity of some of the school's teachers’ educational qualification, including the headmaster. “ The school was converted into a den of corruption by the headmaster and some other teachers. We need to purify it,” the ABAVP leadership said. Mr Sikdar said that the BDO Kalchini, Mr Rajendra Raj Somdas may convene an all party meeting on 17 or 18 August. NB gears up to fight Swine Flu SNS, SILIGURI, 4 AUG: The Infectious Disease hospital at the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital is being revamped to deal with Swine Flu case. A special team comprising four physicians has been formed to tackle any such case on an emergency basis.
Giving this information, the associate professor of the Community Medicine as well as the nodal officer of the Swine Flu preventive unit at NBMCH, Dr R N Bhattacharya said that with the Bagdogra Airport turning international it had become imperative for the NBMCH authority to make some special arrangements.
“A special team comprising of doctors and nursing staff has taken charge of the Swine Flu preventive unit at the medical college. Four doctors and two nursing staff are keeping vigilance on the Swine Flu related development round the clock,” Dr Bhattacharya said.
He further said that a ventilator had been installed at the unit to provide respiratory and other relief to any flu-stricken patient.
“Space has been segregated to keep such patients at a clinically safe distance from others. This apart, we have also made arrangements for prompt pathological tests to confirm the existence of Swine Flu virus in blood or swab in case any suspected case arrives,” Dr Bhattacharya said.
Speaking on the matter, the NBMCH Junior Doctors’ Council president, Dr Bhaskar Ray said that the special arrangements had been made as per instructions from the World Health Organization and Indian Medical Association. “The anaesthesia and other related departments are on guard to deal with any Swine Flu case,” he said.
Dr Ray further said that no case of the deadly flu had been reported from anywhere in north Bengal so far.
“But we are well-equipped and well-prepared for any eventuality. Besides, we have to take into account cases from other parts of the world with the Bagdogra airport having turned international,” Dr Ray added.
Locals-guards clash at NBMCH
Violence spread at the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital this morning as locals clashed with security guards of the institution alleging the guards had been hostile towards a local while he was visiting his ailing daughter in the hospital yesterday. The security guards stopped service after the clash, leaving the NBMCH wards unguarded. They were demanding police protection instead. Demanding arrest of the accused guards, the locals demonstrated at the institution premise and served a representation to the hospital authority. Schizophrenia on the rise, say docs SNS. SILIGURI, 4 AUG: Schizophrenia is on the rise, especially among the adolescents in north Bengal and if something is not done to checkmate the trend at the family and societal levels, the situation might turn grave in days to come. This is what an eminent psychiatrist and head of the psychiatric department of the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital Dr Santanu Dey says.
Expressing concern over the spiraling number of schizophrenia-related cases among the youths in the region, Dr Dey said that self-destructive symptoms were also being observed in most cases. “This is a serious phenomenon when viewed from both the medical and societal planes,” he observed.
“The problem is getting into a stage unthinkable even a couple of years back. Many adolescent patients throng the psychiatric chambers daily just to speak their minds out. Once they do so they look relieved. This means that the families becoming nuclear have ceased to be the medium of thought sharing,” Dr Dey said.
He further said that the youths, particularly of the affluent families, were fast falling prey to the drug menace. “It seems that the parental care deemed to be indispensable for proper upbringing of children is disappearing from the family ambience. Loneliness accentuated by the collapse of the value system seems nibbling at the maturing minds and the result is a vacuum being filled by intoxication and other equally unsocial forms of diversion,” he said.
According to the psychiatrist, the only way to successfully tackle the menace at the individual and collective levels is through inculcation of a holistic approach to life. “A little of living within what is known to be our deeper self can sublimate the gloom which keeps enveloping the surface existence. And family has a great role to play in this matter,” Dr Dey commented. Chamling keen to present Sikkim with skywalk SNS, GANGTOK, 4 AUG: The Sikkim chief minister Mr Pawan Chamling today said that his government was keen to present the state with a skywalk at Bhaleydhunga. The project is expected to propel Sikkim into the international tourism map besides becoming a landmark of its own in the Himalayan state. An international consultancy firm has in its pre-feasibility report pegged the estimated cost for the proposed skywalk at Rs 1200 crore approximately.
The lump sum cost involves construction of three finger-shaped glass skywalks connected through a tunnel in the rocky spur of Bhaleydunga cliff at an elevation of 10,102 feet.
Mr Chamling has been interested in the realization of the tourism project atop a mountain cliff on the lines of the Grand Canyon Skywalk. In this regard, the state government had engaged the services of Grant Thornton, an international consultancy firm to draft a feasibility study on the project.
The company’s representatives in India today presented the pre-feasibility on the Bhaleydunga Skywalk project at Chintan Bhavan in Gangtok in presence of the chief minister and other ministers.
According to the firm representatives, the skywalk would cost around Rs 500 crore while the rest amount would be spent on allied supporting infrastructures like cable car, tourist complex, accommodation centre, nature and spiritual complex and other tourism amenities. The firm has already submitted the interim and draft report of the project to the state government.
The proposed glassy skywalk at Bhaleydunga would be a three-fingered fork at an elevation of 10,102 feet and a ropeway from the nearby hamlet of Yangang would connect to it. JOB /INTERVIEW NOTICES/ANNOUNCEMENT- WBCS EXAM 2010 West Bengal Civil Service (WBCS- Executive) Applications from Indian citizens or such other nationalities as are declared eligible by the Govt. of India in the prescribed format as given below are invited for the aforesaid competitive recruitment examination. The examination will be held as follows: preliminary Examination (Objective type) and
Main Examination (Conventional type – Written Examination) and Personality Test. QUALIFICATIONS :
A degree of a recognised University,
Ability to read, write and speak in Bengali (not required for recruitment in the case of Nepali speaking candidates from hill areas of the district of Darjeeling). AGE :
On 1st January, 2010 – for candidates competing for Group(s) A, C and D – not below 21 years but not more than 32 years (i.e. born not earlier than the 2nd January, 1978 and not later than the 1st January, 1989). For Group – B (West Bengal Police Service) – not below 20 years and not more than 32 years (i.e. born not earlier than the 2nd January, 1978 and not later than the 1st January, 1990). Upper age limit is relaxable by 5 years for SC and ST candidates of West Bengal and by 3 years for BC candidates of West Bengaland upto 45 years of age for persons with disabilities (P.W.D.) having physical disability of 40% and above. SC/ST/BC candidates not belonging to the State of West Bengal shall be treated as General candidates. FEE :
Candidates must attached their applications a fee of Rs.210/- (Rupees two hundred and ten) only in the form of Indian Postal Order or in the form of receipted Challan from a Government Treasury in West Bengal or the Reserve Bank of India, Kolkata. Application should reach on or before 31st august, 2009.
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http://www.pscwb.org.in/jsp/current_details_exam.jsp?val=202&exam=West%20Bengal%20Civil%20Service%28Exe%29etc%20Examination,2010 I 'll Kill Rapists with my own Hands Daily News & Analysis, Kolkata, Aug 5: Is it any wonder that order is deteriorating in West Bengal by the day when elected representatives -- like Lok Sabha members -- encourage the public to take the law into their hands? At a recent mass meeting at Nakashipara in Nadia, a Trinamool Congress MP asked the people to lynch those who rape and murder women. Tapas Pal, who represents the constituency of Krishnagarh, Nadia, in the Lok Sabha and is also a popular Bengali film actor, said: "I am Tapas Pal speaking. If a single woman is raped and murdered anywhere in Krishnagarh, I will not spare the culprit. I will finish his entire family. I am telling all of you to catch such people and lynch them to death." Pal was instructed to visit Nakashipara by Trinamool chief and railway minister Mamata Banerjee after the rape and murder of three women in the town. Upon reaching the place, Pal found himself amid an angry crowd fuming over the crime. But, instead of pacifying the gathering, Pal did the opposite by instigating them further. Later, when reporters asked him if he was getting mixed up about the roles of an actor and a parliamentarian, Pal said he did not regret his statements. "What I said was neither unjust nor unparliamentary. I am not at all sorry," Pal said. "Three women have been raped and murdered in my constituency. The police are doing nothing. How long will the villagers hold their patience? If the police do not take appropriate action, I will kill the miscreants myself." Civil Services (Preliminary) Exam 2009 result announced The Union Service Public Commission (UPSC) has announced the result of the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2009 held on May 17, 2009. The successful candidates have qualified for admission to the Civil Services (Main) Examination 2009. |
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