NBSTC

NBSTC gets an Trinamul MLA as chairman

As expected, the North Bengal State Transport Corporation is going to get an MLA as its new chairman. He is likely the Natabari MLA Mr Rabindra Nath Ghosh. Though no official order reached here till now the news spread among the Trinamul Congress supporters and also among the members of the public. Mr Ghosh is also the president of the Cooch Behar district unit of the Trainamul Congress since the formation of the party.

Executive president of the NBSTC Drivers' and Trinamul Shramik Karmochari Union, Mr Abdur Rahman said that earlier the state government had engaged bureaucrats and senior government officials as chairman and managing director. Many of them served the NBSTC as an additional job. Because of that reason they never took the job seriously and thus the organisation had to suffer. The organisation had also got several CPI-M leaders as chairman.  Now, as the political scenario of the state has changed one can expect a prominent leader of the ruling party or an MLA to chair the post, he said. He also welcomed the news of appointment of Mr Ghosh as chairman. Incidentally, Mr Ghosh is the president of the Trinamul Congress dominated workers' union of the NBSTC.

When contacted, Mr Ghosh however made no comment over his new job probably because of non-arrival of any official order. In his close circles he reportedly made it known that if the chief minister appoints him for the job he will try his best to prove his worth. If he gets the responsibility he would try to improve the condition of the sick organisation keeping its glorious past in mind because it started its journey in the regime of Maharajas of the then Cooch Behar State. The quality of passenger service of the NBSTC got almost ruined in the past 34 years of Left Front rule and it should be brought forward to make it the No. 1 transport organisation of this state, he reportedly said.

On the otherhand, Mr Rahman demanded that a probe should be initiated against the offenders who practiced corruption in the LF regime and ruined the NBSTC. They should be punished. At the same time, Mr Rahaman hoped that under the able leadership of Mr Ghosh the NBSTC might regain its lost glory.