Statesman News Service
MALDA, 12 JAN: A controversy has developed between the Malda district administration and the English Bazaar Municipality authority over the right of use of a Wakf Estate at Chandan Park in Malda. While the Malda district magistrate has forbidden the EBM authority to use the land for any purpose, the latter is determined to use the land as parking lot for its vehicles.
The EBM chairman Mr. Narendranath Tiwari had recently approached the district magistrate, Mr. Sridhar Ghosh, staking claim of the land. The EBM earlier used the plot of land as a dumping ground but stopped doing so after minister of state for minority affairs, Mr. Abdus Sattar, intervened and urged it from doing so. The minority affairs department had planned to set up a girls’ hostel cum training centre for Muslims girls at the spot instead. Although the EBM chairman has proposed to the DM that the EBM has planned to use the land as a parking lot for its water tanks, tractors, garbage carriers and other vehicles, the DM reportedly told them that the civic body could not use the Wakf land and neither could anyone take it over.
As custodian of the land, the district judge can hand over the land to the state government can use it for development “, the DM said.
Despite the DM’s instruction, the EBM authority has planned to construct a boundary wall on the land and stow its vehicles there.
“We would start constructing a boundary wall on the premise soon. We would not dump garbage on thee land but would park our vehicles. The EBM has been using the land since the 60s. We would not give up our claim on the land”, said the EBM vice chairman Mr. Dulal Sarkar.
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