GJMM awaits 27 March Sen Committee meeting
20 March 2012
statesman news service
SILIGURI/MALDA, 20 MARCH: Hoping that the GTA stalemate will end with the prompt submission of the land verification report by the Shyamal Sen Committee, the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) leadership is now looking forward to the meeting convened by the state home department in Kolkata on 27 March.
The meeting is likely to decide the schedule of the land survey involving the Terai-Dooars region. Apart from home secretary GD Goutama, administrative officials of the two districts ~ Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri ~ and retired justice Shymal Sen will attend the meeting. The GJMM leadership expects formal notification on the matter will be issued after the meeting. Another objective of the scheduled meeting is to seek fund from the state finance department to conduct the land survey.
According to senior GJMM leader LB Pariyar, who is also a member of the committee, the two district magistrates will constitute official teams to begin spot verification for 300-odd moujas across the Terai-Dooars region and the teams would submit reports to the Sen committee. “We are looking forward to the study report which will prove vital for transferring lands into the GTA jurisdiction. We hope the district administrative officials would complete the survey in about a month,” Mr Pariyar said.
State Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad president Birsa Tirkey said his outfit would not obstruct the land survey. “But our activists will be present during the survey in large numbers at every spot to prevent manipulation of figures and the like. We will highlight the fact too that incessant migration from across Nepal is changing demographic equations in the region against the interests of the indigenous communities,” he said. When asked about the security of the team members, the inspector general of police, north Bengal, Mr Sanjay Singh, said: “We have not received any official communication as yet. We will take action at the right time.”
SILIGURI/MALDA, 20 MARCH: Hoping that the GTA stalemate will end with the prompt submission of the land verification report by the Shyamal Sen Committee, the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) leadership is now looking forward to the meeting convened by the state home department in Kolkata on 27 March.
The meeting is likely to decide the schedule of the land survey involving the Terai-Dooars region. Apart from home secretary GD Goutama, administrative officials of the two districts ~ Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri ~ and retired justice Shymal Sen will attend the meeting. The GJMM leadership expects formal notification on the matter will be issued after the meeting. Another objective of the scheduled meeting is to seek fund from the state finance department to conduct the land survey.
According to senior GJMM leader LB Pariyar, who is also a member of the committee, the two district magistrates will constitute official teams to begin spot verification for 300-odd moujas across the Terai-Dooars region and the teams would submit reports to the Sen committee. “We are looking forward to the study report which will prove vital for transferring lands into the GTA jurisdiction. We hope the district administrative officials would complete the survey in about a month,” Mr Pariyar said.
State Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad president Birsa Tirkey said his outfit would not obstruct the land survey. “But our activists will be present during the survey in large numbers at every spot to prevent manipulation of figures and the like. We will highlight the fact too that incessant migration from across Nepal is changing demographic equations in the region against the interests of the indigenous communities,” he said. When asked about the security of the team members, the inspector general of police, north Bengal, Mr Sanjay Singh, said: “We have not received any official communication as yet. We will take action at the right time.”
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