 |  | | BL Meena reads out the letter faxed by the government and (below) workers on fast arrive at Lalkothi on Thursday. Pictures by Suman Tamang |
VIVEK CHHETRI TT, Darjeeling, Sept. 17: The state government today authorised the DGHC to regularise its contractual staff against about 3,000 sanctioned vacancies, prompting the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha to suspend its indefinite hunger strike till Diwali. The government decision was faxed to Darjeeling district magistrate, the council’s principal secretary, by home secretary Ardhendu Sen, who is also the additional chief secretary, during a marathon eight-hour meeting between the Morcha leaders and the district officials at Lalkothi, the DGHC headquarters. Morcha supporters had stormed the office of DGHC administrator B.L. Meena at Lalkothi around 9am and laid siege to the building with around 100 contractual workers on the fast occupying the corridors. At 5.30pm, Morcha leaders read out the fax which stated: “The government has authorised the DGHC to start regularisation process against the sanctioned vacancies in all categories which it is authorised to do as per the existing act and the recruitment rules there under.” This essentially means that at least 3,472 contractual workers of the DGHC will be made permanent. The total number of workers stands at 6,287 and the fate of the remaining 2,815 will be decided in a meeting to be conveyed in Calcutta “either on coming Tuesday or Wednesday”, the fax read. The 2,815 extra workers were recruited by Subhas Ghisingh during his 21-year tenure as council chairman. Morcha president Bimal Gurung said he was happy for being able to “fulfill his promise of regularisation”. “We will ensure that all the workers are regularised and will start a greater agitation after Diwali. However, I would like to tell the government that we want to hold the next meeting (scheduled next week) in Darjeeling as it has been proved that decisions can be taken here also,” he added. “The DGHC is a big stumbling block to the creation of Gorkhaland. We have to remove the council but more importantly we also have to take care of the contractual employees. Getting their jobs regularised before the council is dissolved is very important to us. We achieved what we had wanted,” said Gurung while announcing the lifting of the indefinite hunger strike which had entered the fourth day today. Meena said the regularisation would be completed “at the earliest”. “During the interim period the government has also decided to enhance the salaries by Rs 1,000,” Meena said. The increased pay will be paid with retrospective effect from July 1 this year and the arrears are expected to be disbursed soon. The existing salaries of DGHC contractual workers range between Rs 2,500 and Rs 5,000. Asked about the fate of the “extra workers”, if the regularisation was done under the existing DGHC act, Amar Lama, a central committee members of the Morcha, said: “It is this aspect that took a lot of time during our meeting. We have told the administration that these workers too have slogged for 21 years. Whatever the case, we will ensure that all of them get justice,” said Lama.
Sigh of relief for DGHC workers SNS, KURSEONG, 17 SEPT: In what can be termed as a settlement with far reaching political consequences, the services of over 3,400 casual employees of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council would be regularised from tomorrow.
This apart, it has also been decided that the salary of each employee would be hiked by Rs 1,000 with effect from July this year. The question of making the posts permanent remains unsettled though. The five-day hunger strike by the casual employees under the aegis of the GJMM-affiliated Jan Mukti Asthai Karmachari was withdrawn from 6 pm in consequence of the settlement.
A meeting was held in Darjeeling today, involving the DGHC officials including the administrator Mr BL Meena, the GJMM leaders and the JMAK members and it was decided that another meeting would be held in Kolkata next Tuesday to deliberate on the position of the rest of the working posts which are not the sanctioned posts. There are around six thousand employees working in different categories in the DGHC.
Expressing satisfaction over the outcome, the GJMM general secretary, Mr Roshan Giri said that the meeting had concluded on a positive note. “We are happy that a total 3472 employees are being regularized.
“Regarding the rest of the DGHC employees we would press for our demands at the next meeting slated in Kolkata next Tuesday,” he said.
According to the JMAK leaders, the fasting agitation had been deferred until the Dewali in consequence of today's settlement. Gorkhas to declare Independent State in India India's Gurkhas are preparing to unilaterally declare independence in a separate "Gorkhaland" state in the area around Darjeeling.By Dean Nelson in Darjeeling 18 Sep 09, Telegraph .co.uk
They claim they have been forced to take the step by decades of misrule which has siphoned away millions of pounds of government funds earmarked for them. Despite the lucrative tea and tourism industries in the area, unemployment is high, electricity supply is sporadic and people are forced to travel for hours to the nearest proper hospital. Now Indian Gurkhas, who dominate the Darjeeling Hills in the country's north-east gateway, are becoming increasingly restive. The Calcutta-based state government granted limited autonomy through the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council in 1988, but today's Gurkha leaders say it has no powers, and cannot even hire permanent staff. Its leaders wear tweed jackets and hold their meetings in an old British greasy spoon café over scrambled eggs. Earlier this week its 6,000 civil servants went on hunger strike over their casual status – teachers and senior administrators earn as little as £28 per month, less than rickshaw drivers. Now, Bimal Gurung, leader of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, the Gurkha nationalist party which dominates the Darjeeling Hills, has warned he will declare a separate state within the Indian union if ministers reject their demand to break away from West Bengal. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Gurung said his dream is to restore Darjeeling to its glory days and the high living standards it enjoyed as 'Queen of the Hills' during the British Raj. "Darjeeling was a health resort under the British, but since they left nothing has been done," he said from his party office in a small lock-up warehouse. "People must go down to the plains for hospital treatment, and the West Bengal government would not even provide a CT scanner. People here collected donations and bought their own." Surrounded by his track-suited 'Gorkhaland Personnel' security force, Mr Gurung said many Gurkhas had fought and died in the Indian Army but their sacrifices had been rewarded with terrible roads, poor schools and an assembly with less power than a village council. Today, Darjeeling is a tangle of unplanned, half-built concrete buildings, while its fine old British cottages and institutions, like the Darjeeling Tea Planters Club, are slowly collapsing and being devoured by moss. Mr Gurung said a "Gorkhaland" state would be one of India's richest, and he would use its wealth to build a new Darjeeling University, and establish new medical and engineering colleges. "We have three million people and we get £6 million from the government. Sikkim has 500,000 people and they get £1 billion," he said. "We could collect £125 million from the hydroelectric power companies, £75 million from tea. There are huge revenues, but 70 per cent of our money is siphoned off," he added. He said the Gurkhas had run out of patience and would begin a Gandhi-style campaign of non-cooperation if they were not granted statehood by January 1, 2010. They will withhold taxes, refuse to pay government bills and start to collect their own revenues. "We've been in touch with our government, and we feel they will understand our demand for 'Gorkhaland.' It's one of India's oldest demands and [until now] it has been sabotaged," he said.
Factsfile from telegraph.co.uk - Gurkhas are spread across Nepal and in India's Darjeeling Hills.
- Gorkhaland would be a 32 mile wide and 125 mile long strip of Himalayan hills near Darjeeling
- There are Gurkha regiments in the British, Indian and Brunei armies, and also in the Singapore Police
- Hitler feared the Gurkhas so much he tried to bribe Nepal to abandon its alliance with Britain
- The Gurkhas are Hindus descended from Rajput warrior castes in northern India.
- The Hindu guru Gorkhanath gave them their Kukri, the famous curved long knife
DHR service to resume today | TT, Siliguri, Sept. 17: The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway will resume its New Jalpaiguri-Darjeeling service, though only halfway till Kurseong station, from tomorrow, after more than two months. “We will start the NJP-Darjeeling service from tomorrow, but the train will run only till Kurseong as the track on the stretch between Kurseong and Ghoom is yet to be restored. It will take 15 more days before we can extend the service to Darjeeling,” said Subrata Nath, the DHR director. Since July, the toy train has not been operating on the NJP-Darjeeling route as tracks had caved in because of landslides. Nath said the service from Kurseong to Darjeeling could be resumed on October 1, by which the construction of a wall beneath the tracks at Tung would be completed. Tung is 5km from Kurseong. Nath said the DHR had incurred a loss of around Rs 5 lakh in August because of the disruption in the services. Fall in China’s orange exports may help Sikkim: Exim SNS, GANGTOK, 17 SEPT: Projecting a drastic fall in the exports of mandarin oranges from China, the Export Import Bank of India (Exim) has expressed its confidence that Sikkim, where mandarins are endemic, can initiate to exploit this void in the global market.
“Mandarin is the most important commercial fruit of Sikkim and its cultivation has witnessed a consistent increase,” mentions the Exim Bank in its “Sikkim: Export Potential and Prospects” report recently released by chief minister Mr Pawan Chamling.
The Bank in its dossier pegged the area under mandarin plantation in Sikkim as 5,818 hectares with the production increased to 9672 tonnes recording an annual average growth of 5.1 percent. A more promising fact is that the mandarin yield has increased continuously up to 2006-07, from 1599.6 kg per hectare to 1667.1 kg pere hectare.
The Bank also noted in its report that Sikkim is ideally suited to the extension of acreage under orange as the State has favourable topography and climate.
“However, due to the extreme age of mandarin orange orchards (nearly 80 percent of them have crossed the most productive age) and an inadequate replantation rate, productivity declined in 2007-08”, the Bank said. These orchards lack vigour and are prone to diseases and pest attacks, more so considering that the State has declared itself as organic.
The Bank has recommended to the State government for rejuvenation of orchards of about 20 years of age, gradual replanting of the older ones, soil reclamation and manuring around the tree and planting of new orchards with saplings from certified nursery that can go a long way in helping to realize the untapped export potential of mandarin orange.
The Bank has also called for setting up an autonomous board for mandarin growers which would act as a nodal point for extension work, help in farmer education and work closely with farmers’ cooperatives to improve farm management practices and the quality of farm produce. The board can also help with credit, marketing and information on the market.
“A customer export cell may be set up to deal with formalities and simplify documentation procedures”, the Bank noted. It also advocated the need for creating awareness among the farmers that the entry of large investors is to the benefit of the entire industry.
“So far, farmers have been reluctant to replant their orchards, preferring to live off the little income generated by the old trees. The entry of large firms, who will guarantee the purchase of good quality mandarin oranges, is likely to encourage replanting at a faster rate. Once success has been achieved with citrus, fruit and vegetable processing can be extended to other fresh produce grown in the State”, the Bank said.
The report pointed out that processing of mandarin oranges in the form of juices, squash, marmalade and jam is critical as it results in increased shelf life and a far higher per unit value realization. Such processing lends itself to easy transportation thereby facilitating its exports.
The Bank also raised doubts over the Sikkim Fruit Preservation factory at Singtam stating that the amount and quality of the factory are not adequate from an international perspective. Besides, the factory itself needs an overhaul as the equipment and machinery are obsolete, it said.
The Bank summed up its study on mandarin orange export potential of Sikkim by concluding that a facility needs to be established for sorting, grading and processing of mandarin oranges and other horticulture products which could be simultaneously used so as to achieve optimal utilization of the unit. This would entail creating an enabling environment for private sector investments in the state, it said. Workers’ plea on Tata garden | TT, Siliguri, Sept. 17: Around 100 workers of Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate have approached the labour department to reopen the garden which has been closed since Monday, the second time in a month. The Tata Tea-owned estate was functioning smoothly till August 10 when 8-10 workers assaulted medical officer R.K. Ratan Singh in a dispute over allowing maternity benefit to an employee. The management had locked the garden the next day. The garden reopened on August 28 following a tripartite meeting attended by the deputy labour commissioner (DLC) of Jalpaiguri, the management and trade union leaders. After a fortnight, the garden was shut down again as the workers accused of assaulting the doctor forcibly joined their duties. Shambhu Oraon, a signatory to the letter to the DLC, said when closed estates in the Dooars were reopening with government initiatives, “a healthy garden like ours” had stopped working. “The closure before the Puja is hitting all of us hard.” Rajat Pal, the DLC of Jalpaiguri, said: “We have received a letter from workers, who have asked for immediate reopening of the garden. But no notice from the management has reached us.” On the Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad’s demand to include it in the negotiations, Pal said: “We cannot do so unless the outfit forms a tea trade union and enlist it with us. So far our knowledge goes, the Parishad has not yet applied for a trade union.” Industry sources accused the Parishad of creating problems in the garden. “Its members are stopping the management from taking steps against the accused workers,” a source said. “If the administration does not stop them, many more gardens will be closed.”
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REAL LIFE SPIDERMAN HANGS OUT ON THE SIDE OF BUILDINGS
A real-life Spiderman, who lives in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, seems to stick to vertical surfaces, Jyothi Raj, 22, is often compared to the superhero by tourists at India's Chitradurga Fort, where he performs.The former builder discovered his climbing ability four years ago while scaling bamboo scaffolding.Claiming he feels no fear, he reaches heights of up to 300 feet without using a harness.Jyoti says he taught himself how to climb by watching monkeys climb trees.Nowadays he entertains crowds at the Chitradurga fort complex: "I love to see their faces when I position myself upside down," he says. Now he wishes to become recognised as the world's best climber.He says he wants to move on and climb buildings and mountains.He admires French free-climber Alain Robert, wishing to emulate his success by proving his climbing ability to the world.Convinced that his talent for climbing is a gift from the gods, Jyothi says he has never had an accident."My ability to see the foothold that others can't is proof to me that I was born to climb," explains Jyothi."My strength and hand speed are the tools that set me apart from other climbers".He now teaches others how to climb....and hopes to one day open his own climbing school.Jyothi occasionally climbs with a few friends. "They of course use safety harnesses, they do not have my ability to move fast or grasp the rock face".Jyothi says that his family are tolerant of his climbing, believing that he is in full control at all times Picture: NIKLAS HALLE'N / BARCROFT MEDIA LTD 
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