Statesman News Service
MALDA, Feb. 7. — Chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is reportedly upset over his inability to attend the inauguration and foundation laying programmes in north Bengal due to unavoidable conditions, a CPI-M leader informed. According to a senior CPI-M leader here, the chief minister has instructed other ministers in the state to carry on the pending projects that he could not personally attend and has promised to extend all possible helps to them. It may be recalled that Mr Bhattacherjee’s helicopter could not land in Maldar for the foundation laying programme of the drinking water projects owing to heavy fog recently. Similarly, for another function, he could not land at the Bagdogra airport near Siliguri, owing to fog. The public health engineering department (Arsenic division) has reportedly told reporters that the CM has given a second tentative date for the foundation laying programme of the two water projects in Malda. “We will inaugurate the proposed projects here soon. The CM has reported that he is dismayed that he could not attend important programmes in Malda twice and has informed that he will come for political campaigning to the district in March”, said Mr Samar Roy, the English Bazaar MLA. Interestingly, the CPI-M minister for state and the Union minister for information and broadcasting, are both gearing up for an inauguration spree in Malda in the election season.
Ward 24 to get arsenic-free drinking water
Statesman News Service
MALDA, Feb. 7. — Pipe-laying work for the supply of arsenic-free drinking water has been completed in a part of ward no 24 in English Bazaar town amid complaints regarding pre-election “eyewash” by a group of critics. The supply of drinking water from a rural arsenic-free water treatment plant has, however, not begun yet due to technical and political reasons. After coming to power in the English Bazaar municipality, the CPI-M leaders and the PHE minister himself took the initiative to supply drinking water from the rural project to urban people a few months ago. It may be recalled that most of the residents in ward no 24 and its adjoining areas, identified as a red bastion, had been demanding a safe drinking water project for them. Last week, the department had started pipe-laying work and built street water posts for the free distribution of water to common people residing in the area between Ghorapir and the flyover. People are now awaiting the “inauguration” of the water supply. It may be recalled that the PHE had also planned to connect every house in the rural belt to its two existing arsenic-free water supply projects in the district (more than Rs 100 crore was spent on its completion) but no house connection has been made here although advance money has been taken from the people. At Sujapur in Kaliachak area, the ground water is contaminated with arsenic and the department could provide water supply from Dariapur located in Kaliachak III. At present, the old water supply project in Bakharpur area in Sujapur is supplying ground water from which arsenic has been removed.
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