MALDA, 26 APRIL: The chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, has sought report on several islets in the Ganga which figure in the West Bengal land records but are under the administrative control of Jharkhand.
It is learnt that several Left Front leaders had drawn the chief minister’s attention on the matter following which, Mr Bhattacharjee asked the commissioner, Jalpaiguri division, Mr AK Singh to find out the status of the islets in question and the problem of the people residing in those areas. The divisional commissioner has started a survey accordingly.
According to the Malda District Magistrate Mr Sridhar Ghosh: “The Jharkhand government has initiated several development works in the islets. They have constructed roads, school buildings and formed more than seven gram panchayats in the islets”, the DM said.
According to the DM, the land according to the revenue moujas belongs to West Bengal, but the residents get facilities from the Jharkhand government.
“They are, however, dependent on West Bengal on land matters as all records are maintained in the Mothabari registration office under Kaliachak-II block”, the DM informed.
The DM added that the islet residents were, however, facing a major identity crisis. “The Jharkhand government has asked them to show land records since 1932 to claim permanent resident status but they cannot show such records”, he said. (END)
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