Bandh called in Tufanganj

 

COOCH BEHAR, Aug. 27: Trinamul Congress and BJP separately called bandh in Tufanganj on Tuesday.

 

District Trinamul Congress president Mr Rabindra Nath Ghosh said they called a 24-hour bandh in Tufanganj on Tuesday to protest against forcible eviction of nine hundred shops of local traders from a haat at Uttar Chhatjaigir Chilakhana in Tufanganj. "We will not accept the atrocity done on the poor traders in the name of acquisition of land for a school", he said. On the otherhand, district BJP president Mr Nityananda Munsi said they also called a 12-hour bandh on the same issue. State level BJP leaders will also come to express their solidarity to the affected poor traders, Mr Munsi said.

 

Both the BJP and the Trinamul Congress held CPI-M responsible for the eviction drive. Denying the allegation CPI-M sources said that the government took over its own land for construction of the school building.

 

It may be recalled that a few hundred shops were dismantled by the district administration at the haat controlled by the Tufanganj Regulated Market Committee on Saturday morning. The shops were dismantled to clear the area for construction of the proposed building of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya. Mentionworthy, state education minister Mr Kanti Biswas had inaugurated the functioning of the JNV in Tufanganj on 27 February last year. []

 

CCTV plan at Madan Mohan temple

 

COOCH BEHAR, Aug. 27: In a bid to strengthen the security system Close Circuit TV will be installed in the Madan Mohan temple complex. By placing a few cameras inside the complex it will be easier for the temple authorities to monitor the movement of visitors and suspected persons. Checking of all visitors and devotees at the entrance of the temple complex through metal detector will also be mandatory.

 

The decision to increase security measures at Madan Mohan temple was adopted at a recent meeting of the Debottar Trust Board, the temple's guardian body that runs under state tourism department. The CCTV system is going to be introduced from September, DTB sources said.

 

DTB sources also said they requested the police authorities to increase security arrangements at all the twenty-nine temples and religious places under DTB in Cooch Behar district.

 

A senior police official said the police keeps watch on all the temples of the DTB regularly. There are permanent police deployments at Madan Mohan temple and Baneswar Shiva temple. The police install CCTV system at Madan Mohan temple complex and adjoining areas during the annual fortnight-long Raas-mela days. Installation of this facility to keep watch round the year will be helpful for the security of the temple, DTB sources hoped.

 

It was learnt that the DTB would arrange training for some of its selected staff to run the CCTV system. Additional police personnel will be posted at the main gate of the temple complex to check each visitor with metal detectors in addition of the metal detector doorframe. []