ICDS workers’ rally
COOCH BEHAR, June 13: Pashchim Banga Rajya ICDS Kormi Samiti took out a large slogan shouting procession in Cooch Behar today. Later they submitted a memorandum containing a fourteen-point charter of demands to the district magistrate and the district project officer of ICDS.
District unit president and secretary of the organisation – Ms Kajal Dey and Ms Shibani Saha led the programme today. They demanded Rs 3,000 as monthly salary for workers and Rs 2,000 for helpers, absorption of all workers and helpers as permanent employees, setting up more Anganwadi Centres at non-represented areas, drawing an end to supply of low-grade foods to the Anganwadi Centres and providing of foods for at least 300-days in a year. []
Congress demand
COOCH BEHAR, June 13: Following instruction from Pradesh Congress Committee, the Cooch Behar district unit of Congress organised demonstrations in front of all block development offices in Cooch Behar district today. They demanded arrangement of public viewing of BPL lists at all BDO offices, preparation of errorless BPL list and inclusion of actual poor people in the BPL lists. District Congress president Mr Shyamal Choudhury, general secretary Mr Sudha Ranjan Mukherjee and other Congress leaders spoke in the gatherings at different places on the occasion today. []
Jail custody for human skull traders
COOCH BEHAR, June 13: The four persons who were arrested from Jaigaon in Alipurduar with huge quantity of human skulls and thighbones yesterday were produced at the court of additional chief judicial magistrate in Alipurduar today. The acting ACJM, Ms Arpita Ghosh remanded them to jail custody for fourteen days.
It may be mentioned here that acting on a tip-off police recovered 22 sacks of human skulls and thighbones from a house at Jaigaon yesterday. Four persons were arrested in connection with illegal trade of human parts. The arrested four were identified as Mohan Shah, Sanjay Shah, Rajdeo Shah and Haridayanand Prasad. Prasad is the owner of the house. All of them are from Matihari in Bihar. After primary investigation police came to know that the arrested four were engaged in smuggling out of human skulls and bones to neighbouring Bhutan collecting from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. []
Hawkers on warpath
COOCH BEHAR, June 13: Members of TUCC affiliated Bengal Hawkers’ Association (BHA) came out on the street against the proposed eviction drive declared by Cooch Behar Municipality. More than two hundred hawkers took out a protest rally in Cooch Behar town this noon. They also submitted a memorandum containing a four-point charter of demands to the Cooch Behar Sadar SDO, Mr Jayanta Maity. Cooch Behar district TUCC secretary Mr Dipak Sarkar (MLA), district BHA president Mr Dhiren Sarkar and secretary Mr Gopal Dey led today’s agitation.
District BHA secretary Mr Gopal Dey said they also want a clean town but the hawkers should not be held solely responsible for encroaching the footpaths and roadside places. The civic body established several roadside cycle-stands by blocking footpaths. A number of big shops and bicycle stores too encroached streets in the town. Keeping eyes blind to the large shops and even the civic body’s own cycle-stands the authorities are planning to evict the poor hawkers who are earning their breads by running small roadside shops, he alleged. It will be brutal if the poor hawkers are evicted only to beautify the town, he argued. These hawkers have no alternative means to feed their families, he said. Mr Dey said they appealed the SDO to take an initiative to rehabilitate the hawkers before driving them out from their roadside shops and stalls.
In the memorandum the BHA demanded alternative arrangements and rehabilitation for the affected hawkers before evicting them. They also demanded establishment of Hawkers’ Market and distribution of stalls to the hawkers against minimum price. Any decision related with hawkers should be taken jointly with hawkers’ organisations, they demanded. For a hassle free traffic flow the entrance of MJN Hospital should be kept as a no parking zone for auto-rickshaws and one-way should be introduced along the Keshav Road upto Khagrabari, they suggested. []
COOCH BEHAR, June 13: Pashchim Banga Rajya ICDS Kormi Samiti took out a large slogan shouting procession in Cooch Behar today. Later they submitted a memorandum containing a fourteen-point charter of demands to the district magistrate and the district project officer of ICDS.
District unit president and secretary of the organisation – Ms Kajal Dey and Ms Shibani Saha led the programme today. They demanded Rs 3,000 as monthly salary for workers and Rs 2,000 for helpers, absorption of all workers and helpers as permanent employees, setting up more Anganwadi Centres at non-represented areas, drawing an end to supply of low-grade foods to the Anganwadi Centres and providing of foods for at least 300-days in a year. []
Congress demand
COOCH BEHAR, June 13: Following instruction from Pradesh Congress Committee, the Cooch Behar district unit of Congress organised demonstrations in front of all block development offices in Cooch Behar district today. They demanded arrangement of public viewing of BPL lists at all BDO offices, preparation of errorless BPL list and inclusion of actual poor people in the BPL lists. District Congress president Mr Shyamal Choudhury, general secretary Mr Sudha Ranjan Mukherjee and other Congress leaders spoke in the gatherings at different places on the occasion today. []
Jail custody for human skull traders
COOCH BEHAR, June 13: The four persons who were arrested from Jaigaon in Alipurduar with huge quantity of human skulls and thighbones yesterday were produced at the court of additional chief judicial magistrate in Alipurduar today. The acting ACJM, Ms Arpita Ghosh remanded them to jail custody for fourteen days.
It may be mentioned here that acting on a tip-off police recovered 22 sacks of human skulls and thighbones from a house at Jaigaon yesterday. Four persons were arrested in connection with illegal trade of human parts. The arrested four were identified as Mohan Shah, Sanjay Shah, Rajdeo Shah and Haridayanand Prasad. Prasad is the owner of the house. All of them are from Matihari in Bihar. After primary investigation police came to know that the arrested four were engaged in smuggling out of human skulls and bones to neighbouring Bhutan collecting from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. []
Hawkers on warpath
COOCH BEHAR, June 13: Members of TUCC affiliated Bengal Hawkers’ Association (BHA) came out on the street against the proposed eviction drive declared by Cooch Behar Municipality. More than two hundred hawkers took out a protest rally in Cooch Behar town this noon. They also submitted a memorandum containing a four-point charter of demands to the Cooch Behar Sadar SDO, Mr Jayanta Maity. Cooch Behar district TUCC secretary Mr Dipak Sarkar (MLA), district BHA president Mr Dhiren Sarkar and secretary Mr Gopal Dey led today’s agitation.
District BHA secretary Mr Gopal Dey said they also want a clean town but the hawkers should not be held solely responsible for encroaching the footpaths and roadside places. The civic body established several roadside cycle-stands by blocking footpaths. A number of big shops and bicycle stores too encroached streets in the town. Keeping eyes blind to the large shops and even the civic body’s own cycle-stands the authorities are planning to evict the poor hawkers who are earning their breads by running small roadside shops, he alleged. It will be brutal if the poor hawkers are evicted only to beautify the town, he argued. These hawkers have no alternative means to feed their families, he said. Mr Dey said they appealed the SDO to take an initiative to rehabilitate the hawkers before driving them out from their roadside shops and stalls.
In the memorandum the BHA demanded alternative arrangements and rehabilitation for the affected hawkers before evicting them. They also demanded establishment of Hawkers’ Market and distribution of stalls to the hawkers against minimum price. Any decision related with hawkers should be taken jointly with hawkers’ organisations, they demanded. For a hassle free traffic flow the entrance of MJN Hospital should be kept as a no parking zone for auto-rickshaws and one-way should be introduced along the Keshav Road upto Khagrabari, they suggested. []
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