CPI-ML wants protection of tribals

MALDA, 9 APRIL: The CPI-ML  (Liberation) leadership in Malda today lodged a complaint with the district magistrate demanding protection of tribal rights. The tribals’ land in Old Malda was allegedly procured by a private agency through fraudulent means. CPI-ML district secretary, Mr Nabakumar Biswas, alleged that a private agency grabbed the patch of land to set up the proposed Ghani Khan Choudhury Institute of Engineering and Technology without seeking the sate government’s permission and violating the laws related to tribal land. Demanding an inquiry into the mater, Mr Biswas said: “We shall visit the area and interact with the affected tribal families”. The land and land reforms department had reported to the district magistrate that a private agency had procured land from 10 tribal families in Sukandighi and Maligram villages in Old Malda in contravention with the prevailing rules. The CPI-ML, which is the first political organisation to take the issue, further added that most tribal residents of Sukandighi and Maligram do not know how and where to lodge complaints to protect land.  SNS