MALDA, Nov. 11: Councillors of English Bazaar Municipality belonging to the Congress, Trinamul Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party today selected a vacant land at Mahespur for relocation of more than 40 families from the area earmarked for the construction of a boundary wall and building of the University of Gour Banga.
Yesterday, all family members backed by Congress, Trinamul Congress councillors, prevented the officials and police from working on the university building, for which nearly 30 acres were allocated. The district magistrate Mr Sridhar K Ghosh finally summoned the civic body officials yesterday and requested them to execute the resolution adopted at an all political party meeting held on Friday for shifting the encroachers from the university land and extended 48 hours more time to clear encroachments. The Trinamul Congress councillors of ward no. 2, Ms Sumala Agarwal said: “We are always in favour of the interest of the University and we had agreed to shift the families living in the university land. But we decided to resist police and government officials yesterday because a group of CPI-M workers forced and threatened them on Sunday night to vacate the land”. Since morning the Congress, Trinamul Congress and BJP led English Bazaar Municipality (EBM) started earmarking another plot of vacate land at Mahespur for shifting shanties from university land in ward no. 2.
The overseers of the EBM, has demarcated 300 square feet areas for each family there and arranged basic amenities including drinking water sources for the dwellers in newly ‘encroached’ areas in the same ward no. 2.The Congress councillors Mr Asish Kundu said: “A total of 43 families have been enlisted as BPL category in last municipal survey and they have voters’ ID card. We have to provide them rehabilitation with basic amenities before eviction drive. We wanted time from the administration for their resettlement”. The EBM officials said the entire area would be vacated by tomorrow and the land would be free for organising the programme of foundation laying ceremony for the construction of University of Gour banga campus. n SNS
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