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KOLKATA/DARJEELING, 6 JUNE: Official level talks between the state government and Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) today centred around the formation of a board of administrators to discharge the duties of Darjeeling Gorkha Autonomous Hill Council (DGAHC) till the interim authority is set up.
GJMM leaders led by Mr Roshan Giri today discussed “seven points” with state officials including the chief secretary, home secretary, administrator of DGAHC and district magistrate of Darjeeling.
While it was decided that the board would comprise three MLAs of the GJMM it would also include the present administrator of DGAHC and the district magistrate of Darjeeling. The board of administrators will enjoy all the powers of the present DGAHC and will continue till the new interim authority is formed.
Although Mr Giri said that “the demand for Gorkhaland will always be there”, they seem to have moved away from their earlier stand of rejecting the interim authority altogether as they did during the last days of Left Front's regime, particularly after the incident at Sipchu.
The talks also revolved around the territory of the proposed interim authority. While Left Front government had totally rejected any expansion of territory, the issue of identifying the Gorkha dominated areas in the Dooars also featured in the talks today.” Talks on territorial jurisdiction will take place tomorrow as it is a major issue that will require time,” said Dr Harkha Bahadur Chettri, the spokesperson of GJMM and a part of the seven-member team today. The issue of granting lease to the tea gardens also came up for discussion as did GJMM'S demand for being granted forest management rights.
The GJMM also wants to be declared as scheduled tribe and hence the matter would be placed before the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes. Later, Mr Giri said: “ The talks are incomplete. We will again sit tomorrow to resolve the issues.” The GJMM also raised the demand of regularisation of more than 6,000 causal workers under the DGHC in today's meeting. Miss Banerjee has promised to resolve the problem at the Hills in the next three months and she is likely to visit Darjeeling later this month.
KOLKATA/DARJEELING, 6 JUNE: Official level talks between the state government and Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) today centred around the formation of a board of administrators to discharge the duties of Darjeeling Gorkha Autonomous Hill Council (DGAHC) till the interim authority is set up.
GJMM leaders led by Mr Roshan Giri today discussed “seven points” with state officials including the chief secretary, home secretary, administrator of DGAHC and district magistrate of Darjeeling.
While it was decided that the board would comprise three MLAs of the GJMM it would also include the present administrator of DGAHC and the district magistrate of Darjeeling. The board of administrators will enjoy all the powers of the present DGAHC and will continue till the new interim authority is formed.
Although Mr Giri said that “the demand for Gorkhaland will always be there”, they seem to have moved away from their earlier stand of rejecting the interim authority altogether as they did during the last days of Left Front's regime, particularly after the incident at Sipchu.
The talks also revolved around the territory of the proposed interim authority. While Left Front government had totally rejected any expansion of territory, the issue of identifying the Gorkha dominated areas in the Dooars also featured in the talks today.” Talks on territorial jurisdiction will take place tomorrow as it is a major issue that will require time,” said Dr Harkha Bahadur Chettri, the spokesperson of GJMM and a part of the seven-member team today. The issue of granting lease to the tea gardens also came up for discussion as did GJMM'S demand for being granted forest management rights.
The GJMM also wants to be declared as scheduled tribe and hence the matter would be placed before the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes. Later, Mr Giri said: “ The talks are incomplete. We will again sit tomorrow to resolve the issues.” The GJMM also raised the demand of regularisation of more than 6,000 causal workers under the DGHC in today's meeting. Miss Banerjee has promised to resolve the problem at the Hills in the next three months and she is likely to visit Darjeeling later this month.
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