Rally on hawker issue

 

COOCH BEHAR, Aug. 2: Cooch Behar district unit of INTUC and Cooch Behar Zilla Footpath Byabasayee Samiti (CZFBS) took out a procession in Cooch Behar town today. Later, they submitted a memorandum to the district magistrate and the chairman of Cooch Behar Municipality.

 

District INTUC president Mr Sudha Ranjan Mukherjee said they organised the programme demanding implementation of the decision that was adopted at the all-party meeting on 17 July to solve the hawker problem in the town.

 

CZFBS general secretary Mr Gobinda Ghosh, district INTUC general secretary Mr Dipak Neogi, district Youth Congress president Mr Avijit Dey Bhaumik and other leaders led the procession that started from district Congress office with a large number of hawkers.

 

Mr Mukherjee said that according to the decision of the all-party meeting the ponds like Chandandighi and Laldighi should be cleaned and renovated and the traders engaged in businesses on the banks of these ponds should be provided with permanent settlement to conduct their businesses. The evicted hawkers should be allowed to continue their businesses by mobile vans, he said.

 

Cooch Behar is a city of 8.5 square-kilometre since the days of Maharajas. Volume of all the municipalities in this state was increased except Cooch Behar. Now the time came to expand it following increase of population and to create job opportunities. Once the volume of this municipality increases it would be possible for it to upgrade its status from D-category to C-category and thus Cooch Behar Municipality may be able to get more financial assistance to make the town prosperous, Mr Mukherjee said. []

 

Kamal Guha critical, CM sends medical team

 

COOCH BEHAR, Aug. 2: The condition of Forward Bloc's Bangla committee chairman Mr Kamal Guha turned serious again from last night. He is in a private nursing home in Cooch Behar. A three-member team from North Bengal Medical College and Hospital examined him today. Another medical team of specialists from Kolkata is to arrive tomorrow as instructed by the state chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, according to Mr Guha's family physician Dr Bidyut Kamal Saha.

 

Forward Bloc's all-India general secretary Mr Debabrata Biswas, state food and supply minister Mr Paresh Adhikary and other leaders arrived here to inquire the health of the veteran leader according to his son Mr Udayan Guha.

 

Dr Bidyut Kamal Saha said the blood pressure of Mr Guha decreased last night and his condition became critical. Now his condition is stable, Dr Saha said.

 

It may be mentioned here that the Forward Bloc's Bangla Committee chairman and former agriculture minister Mr Kamal Guha (80) was shifted from Dinhata to a private nursing home in Cooch Behar on 24 July. Since then on he is there under Dr Subhas Saha. He was suffering from cardiac and breathing problems. Mr Guha was in a private nursing home in his hometown Dinhata under Dr Bidyut Kamal Saha since 17 July. []