Statesman News Service
MALDA, 30 OCT: Mr Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, former Raiganj MP and former Union Information and Broadcasting minister, wanted to build a sub divisional sports stadium at Chanchal in North Malda, which was believed to be his dream project.
But in Mr Das Munshi’s absence the project is yet to kick off.
Mr Das Munshi had allotted a fund of Rs 30 lakh from his MP funds in 2007-08 and 2008-09 and he managed some additional fund from various sources including Rs 15 lakh from a Rajya Sabha MP for the construction of that stadium.
Though the present MP in North Malda, Miss Mausam Noor, had promised during her election campaigns that she would implement this project but no initiative has been taken up till date. But she had assured during the polls campaigns: “Priya mamar unnoyoner asampurno kaj aami sampurno korbo” (I will fulfill Priya uncle's unfulfilled dream).
According to the district administrative officials, the Centre had allotted MPLAD funds of Rs 1 crore, half of the total funds in a year, for Miss Noor, but no proposal has been submitted to the district planning and development department till date.
However, Miss Noor was not available for comment because she had left for Japan.
“He had also asked us to finalise a day for laying the foundation stone of the proposed stadium at Chanchal on the last meeting with him, after which he fell ill seriously,” said an official of the district planning and development department.
According to the officials of the district planning and development department, the funds allotted by Mr Das Munshi had been mostly utilised in the power sector.
A few funds allotted for madrassa, school and construction of burning ghaat were yet to be utilised.
According to the officials, due to technical reasons the then SDO Mr Debasish Sarkar could not give work orders to a particular firm who had prepared a detailed project report (DPR) based on the verbal instruction of Mr Das Munshi.
Later it was decided that the Congress led Malda Zilla Parishad (MZP) would be implementing agencies for the construction of the stadium.
The additional executive officer of the MZP, Mr Kajal Banerjee said: “We could not begin the work as Mr Das Munshi could not give his approval due to his illness.”
The present Chanchal sub-divisional officer, Mr Subho Mukherjee said: “We have already decided to arrange a meeting with the Chanchal stadium committee, formed by the then MP, to review the situation so that we can begin the project”.
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