Homestead of Panchanan Barma acquisitioned

 

COOCH BEHAR, Feb. 15: The state government has acquisitioned the homestead of the great social reformer, Roysaheb Thakur Panchanan Barma. A demand was there for a long to take over the land as a place of historic interest and also to pay respect to the great social reformer of this region. At last the government did it.

 

Declaring the take over, the state backward classes welfare minister Mr Jogesh Chandra Barman also laid foundation of a museum and a research centre at Khalisamari village in Mathabhanga of Cooch Behar on Friday. He went there to attend the 142-nd birth anniversary of Thakur Panchanan.

 

The minister said the work for setting up of the museum will commence in this year. Backward classes welfare department will extend financial assistance. Assistance from the Union cultural affairs department will also be sought for to make the museum and the research centre completed as full-fledged ones.

 

Mentionworthy, state chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had unveiled the bronze statue of Thakur Panchanan at Sitai Morh in Mathabhanga in February 2005. After unveiling the statue he had compared Thakur Panchanan with Shri Chaitanya and Rabindranath Tagore and declared of taking over of the homestead of the great social reformer. At last, the government came up to keep the promise after three years. []