Statesman News Service
MALDA, Jan. 27: The chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, will inaugurate the newly completed arsenic free drinking water treatment plant at Balupur in Ratua I block on 16 February, the Malda district magistrate said. Addressing the Republic Day celebration programme yesterday, the district magistrate, Mr CR Das, also said that the public health engineering department has taken up another drinking water project at Pardewnapur, a remote village of Kaliachak III. The department has allotted Rs 1.18 crore for this project. A large part of arsenic affected area of this district has come under the network of safe drinking supply project, he claimed. Mr Das also said: “Besides the existing nine degree colleges, two more degree colleges, an academic university and a medical college have been proposed to come up in the district." “The Malda district belongs to backward group and rate of literacy is comparatively lower than the others, but it has been able to bring back 1.6 lakh drop-out students last year," Mr Das said. According to him, by executing Janani Suraksha Yojona at present the mortality rate of infants and mothers has decreased in this district. The district has planned to set up a health sub-centre in each gram panchayat. The district magistrate stressed on the need for infrastructure development in this district and claimed that a central bus terminus and a bridge over the Mahananda river would be inaugurated soon.
Police rescue ‘witch’
MALDA, Jan. 27: Malda police have rescued Sukumar Kisku, a 65-year-old tribal man, who was branded as a witch, after the villagers, including his relatives, decided to kill him. Police rushed to Srikrishnapur yesterday and pacified them. Trouble broke out a month ago, following the death of a baby of Sukumar Kisku’s relative. The latter examined the ailing baby and predicted that it would die. When it died, everyone suspected that Sukumar was a witch. The local CPIM MLA and other CPIM leaders are trying to bring the situation under control. n sns
MALDA, Jan. 27: Malda police have rescued Sukumar Kisku, a 65-year-old tribal man, who was branded as a witch, after the villagers, including his relatives, decided to kill him. Police rushed to Srikrishnapur yesterday and pacified them. Trouble broke out a month ago, following the death of a baby of Sukumar Kisku’s relative. The latter examined the ailing baby and predicted that it would die. When it died, everyone suspected that Sukumar was a witch. The local CPIM MLA and other CPIM leaders are trying to bring the situation under control. n sns
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