WEATHER FORECAST Kalimpong, India

Wednesday 7/10/2009

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90% 9.40 mm	100% 10.16 mm	80% 7.62 mm	100% 11.18 mm	100% 44.45 mm	100% 47.24 mm	100% 30.99 mm	100% 22.61 mm

GJMM gears up to celebrate foundation day

SNS, KURSEONG, 6 OCT: The Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha has decided to organise a major rally throughout the Darjeeling Hills tomorrow to observe its second foundation day. Besides, it would also host several cultural and traditional functions in the hills to observe the day. Preparations are on across the hills by different associations and organizations for the celebrations. The GJMM is distributing party-flags to the shops and houses, which would be hoisted on the rooftops to celebrate the day tomorrow.

A GJMM core committee member, Mrs Prabha Chettri said that Naari Morcha activists have been busy for the past two days preparing traditional delicacies at the Kurseong community. The delicacies would be sent to Darjeeling. She also said items from the Gorkha cuisine would be prepared and distributed among the people at Kurseong tomorrow.

Hill schools turn 130 - Plan for alumni reunion

Dow Hill School in Kalimpong. (Chinlop Fudong Lepcha) RAJEEV RAVIDAS TT, Kalimpong, Oct. 6: The alumni of Victoria Boys’ School and Dow Hill School will come together in Darjeeling and Kurseong to celebrate the 130th anniversary of the institutions from October 30 to November 1. The three-day grand reunion will be inaugurated by ex-Victorian Manish Kumar — director of development project, Unicef, Delhi — at Chowrastha in Darjeeling. Victoria Boys’ School has classes from III to X and is only for the boys as the name denotes. In Dow Hill School, both boys and girls study together till Class III, but only girls are allowed from IV to X. The two institutions are the only government-owned ICSE residential schools in Bengal. Manoj Rana, the secretary of the North Bengal and Sikkim chapter of Victoria and Dow Hill Alumni Association (Vadha), said the idea of holding the inaugural programme in Darjeeling was to involve the entire people of the hills in the celebration of two of the oldest institutions in Darjeeling district. “The schools, we believe, deserve to be granted some sort of heritage status for their contribution in the field of education over the past 130 years,” he added. On the first day, students of various schools in Darjeeling will present different cultural programmes. Besides, an inter-school marathon will also be held. The celebration will be shifted to the picturesque campuses of the two schools, 3km above Kurseong town, the next day. Dow Hill will pay host to a musical jamboree featuring famous artistes in the hills on October 31 evening. “We expect that about 300 ex-students from across the country and abroad, particularly neighbouring Nepal, will attend the three-day celebrations,” said Rana. The grand reunion will end on November 1 with an Autumn Ball at Dow Hill in the evening. The ball will be preceded by a seminar at Victoria in the morning. “The present principals, staff and students of the schools, too, are looking forward to celebrating the anniversary with us,” said the Vadah secretary. The two schools were set up in 1879 by the British for the education of the children of government officials on the lines of public schools in England. Steam to pull hill toy train again Power to hoot: A toy train with steam engine chugs up the hills Vivek Chhetri, TT, Darjeeling, Oct. 6: The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway’s joy rides will again have the familiar hoot of the steam engines from October 19. Since September 23, the DHR has been using diesel engines for the joy rides, much to the chagrin of hill tour operators who have termed the move as a betrayal of its promise. Subrata Nath, director, DHR, had claimed that they had never committed a steam engine for the joy ride on Darjeeling-Ghum route. But tour operators in Darjeeling pointed out that www.dhr.in, the hill railway’s official website, said three locomotives would be pulled by the heritage B-Class steam engines. “The official website suggests that the toy trains will be run on steam. But diesel engines are now used for the rides. Many foreign clients refused to travel on a train pulled by a diesel engine,” said Suresh Periwal, chairman, Indian Association of Tour Operators’ north Bengal and Sikkim chapter. Even though the website could not be accessed this afternoon, Periwal claimed that he had with him the downloaded pages of the DHR’s website. “I have a copy of the saved page. In the time-table section of the website, the DHR has clearly maintained that only steam engines would be used to haul the trains. It is based on these information that foreigners visit Darjeeling for a steam engine joy ride,” said Periwal. The DHR in a letter to the tour operators has clarified that diesel engines are being used primarily to pre-empt any effort by coal labourers to disrupt the joy rides by calling strikes during the tourism season and secondly to accommodate more tourists on the train. Nath had said the diesel engine could pull four bogies whereas only three rakes could be attached to the steam engine. “Incidentally, two trips of steam hauled joy ride can carry a maximum of Rs 100 tourists whereas diesel hauled joy ride can clear 150 tourists in two trips. I am glad to say that the two diesel hauled trips are running 100 percent since 27.09.2009,” said the letter by Nath. Today, Nath said he had never stated that a commitment on the steam engine had not been made. “What I had said was that the fares for the steam and diesel rides was the same. We will be reintroducing steam rides after October 18,” he said over the phone from Siliguri. Sikkim tech classes start, axe on 26 TT, Gangtok, Oct. 6: Classes resumed at the Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology yesterday after almost a month since clashes broke out between boarders and day scholars on the campus. Sikkim Manipal University vice-chancellor Brigadier (retd) Surjit Singh Pabla said according to the interim report of a seven-member committee constituted to probe the clash, 26 SMIT students, identified for their involvement in the violence, would be suspended. “Of the 26 students, suspension orders for 17 have been issued and their guardians have been intimated about the decision,” the vice-chancellor said. Suspension orders for the remaining students were being processed, he added. The suspensions range from two to four weeks. Pabla said several other students were yet to depose before the committee and final action would be taken after that. “Action against some more students in the future cannot be ruled out.” The vice-chancellor said the SMU, to which SMIT is affiliated, while meting out punishment to the perpetrators had kept in mind the careers of the students. The tech college authorities had suspended classes on September 8 after a volleyball match snowballed into a major clash and a full scale rioting. Police had to burst tear-gas shells and conduct lathicharge on the Majitar campus to dispel the warring students. The SMIT campus is near Rangpo, the town on the border with Bengal, 45km from here. Pabla said a number of steps had been taken by the SMU in consultation with the Sikkim government to ensure that such incidents were not repeated. “A chief security officer and a chief hostel warden for the campus have been appointed. Brigadier (retd) S. R. Mazagavankar is the chief security officer for SMIT and he had joined duty in the third week of September.” Fifteen private security guards have also been deployed on the campus. Pabla said teacher committees have been constituted to keep a watch on the activities of the students in the hostels and on the campus. Most of the 2,500 boarders had started returning to their hostels from the end of September, SMIT sources said. There are about 4,000 students at SMIT.

Opp to send legal notice to Asok

SNS,SILIGURI, 6 OCT: The Trinamul Darjeeling district leadership has decided to send a legal notice to the state urban development minister and Siliguri MLA, Mr Asok Bhattacharya (in picture), who has alleged the Trinamul tried to bribe some Left Front councillors for support in the SMC Mayor election. The CPI-M leadership, however, challenged the Trinamul leadership to file a defamation suit. “Let them file a defamation suit, that would expose the truth,” CPI-M Darjeeling district secretariat member Mr Jibesh Sarkar said at a gathering today. “The Trinamul tried to bribe the only Forward Bloc and some CPI-M councillors,” he too alleged publicly. The Trinamool leadership demanded that Mr Bhattacharya should apologize for his statement. “The minister alleged without information that our party tried to bribe Left Front councillors. I would send a legal notice to the minister within a day or two,” the Trinamul Darjeeling district president, Mr Gautam Deb said at a press conference today. “Mr Bhattacharya has become the spokesperson for the Darjeeling district Congress, after the latter took the Left Front's support to capture the SMC Mayor post. If he has proof to the allegation, he should publish it,” Mr Deb claimed. Referring to the Congress’s claim that a written appeal would be sent to the Trinamool to join the SMC board, Mr Deb said: “We have not received any such letter and the Trinamul would not join the Congress in the SMC board. There is no question of joining the board after the SMC Mayor was elected with the Left Front’s support,” he added. The Trinamul would organise a mass convention to chalk out future programmes in Siliguri soon.

Cong wants action for SMC ‘deal’

SILIGURI, 6 OCT: The Congress in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts faces a crisis like never before organisationally. A cry has gone up to remove the party presidents of the two districts for their purported role in securing Left Front votes to corner the Siliguri Mayor post. While Miss Mamata Banerjee described her “poll partners (read Congress) a greedy lot” over the SMC fiasco, a section of Congress leadership has gone a step ahead to bring kickback charges against the two district presidents on the issue.

Add to that the state urban development and municipal affairs minister as well as the local CPI-M MLA Mr Asok Bhattacharya's graft charge against the Trinamul for Left Front votes to grab the SMC Mayor post and the picture of a very disturbing political exercise that had gone into the SMC election is complete. The electorate had not bargained for this.

While the debate continues for and against the Congress's role vis-a-vis the Siliguri Mayor episode, pockets of resistance have developed within the Congress with a section of party supporters loyal to one faction or the other demanding the two district president's scalp.

The demand may be current but the dissension is old and the turn of events has allowed the rebels a toe in through the door.

It is another question whether heads would roll or not as, the two district presidents Mr Shankar Malakar of Darjeeling and Mr Biswaranjan Sarkar of Jalpaiguri have been pointing heavenwards, not for manna, but to indicate, the responsibility of the contentious decision that gave the Congress the SMC Mayor post had come from the top.

The Congress high command has so far distanced itself from the episode and the middle command has made all kinds of noises except coming up with a clear answer to the plethora of questions the development has triggered. Although it is quite clear to all and sundry the decision could not have been taken locally but had come from the party bosses, a scapegoat could be the demand of the season in the end. ;Sudipta Chanda, SNS.

VIOLENCE IN ASSAM - 7 GORKHAS KILLED

Source: Himgiri daily , Gangtok (http://www.himgirinepali.com/ )

असममा 7 गोर्खाहरूको हत्या भएको पुष्टि, असममा बन्द पालन

फोटोः गोलीबारीमा परेका बालक र अन्य अस्पतालमा भर्ना गरिएपछि जीवन मृत्युसित जुझ्दै

गान्तोक, 6 अक्टोबर:(हिस): असमको शोणितपुर जिल्लाको बालिचाङमा प्रतिबन्धित उग्रवादी संगठन नेशनल डेम्रोक्रेटिक फ्रण्ट अफ बोडोल्याण्ड (एनडीएफबी)-ले गत 4 अक्टोबरको बेलुकी 6बजीतिर स्वचालित हात हतियारले अन्धाधुन्ध गरेको गोलीबारीमा परेर अहिलेसम्म आधिकारिकरुपमा 7 जना गोर्खाहरू लगायत अन्य समुदायको गरी 13 जनाको हत्या भएको छ। सो हत्याको प्रतिवादमा अखिल असम गोर्खा विद्यार्थी संघ लगायत अन्य पॉंचवटा विद्यार्थीहरूले असमभरि 12 घण्टाको बन्दको आह्वान गरेको थियो।शोणितपूर जिल्लामा सो बन्द पूर्णरुपले सफल भएको बताइएको छ भने कतिपय स्थानमा यसको आंशिक असर पर्न गयो।

फोटोः गोर्खा मृतकहरूको शरीर भूईंमा लड़िरहेको दृश्य

ठाउँ ठाउँमा बन्दको लागि पिकेटिङ गर्ने विद्यार्थी संगठनका सदस्यहरू र पुलिसमाझ झड़प भएको तथा वाहनहरू आक्रोशित भीड़ले तोड़फोड़ गरेको पनि जनाइएको छ भने विद्यार्थीहरूलाई पुलिसले हिरासतमा पनि लिएको छ। बन्दको आयोजनमा पिकेटिङमा उत्रिएका विद्यार्थीहरूलाई प्रहरीले शिवसागरबाट 6 जना, शदियाबाट 10 जना, डिगबोइबाट 7जना, तीन सुकियाबाट 10जना, डुमडुमाबाट 6 जना,माजबाट्बाट 6 जना गरी जम्मा 45 जना विद्यार्थीहरूलाई पक्राउ गरेको छ। आक्रोशित भीड़ले शोणितपूर जिल्लामा एउटा ट्रक र एउटा जिसी पनि जलाएको छ भने त्यत्रो ठूलो दुर्घटना हुँदा पनि समयमा नै त्यहॉंको खबर प्रसारण नगरेर एक दिन बितेर मात्र त्यहॉंको खबर संग्रह गर्नु आउने उत्तरपूर्वी भारतको एक निजी समाचार च्यानलको सञ्चारकर्मीहरूलाई पनि त्यहॉंका मानिसहरूले रोके तथा क्यामेरा पनि तोड़फोड़ गरेको जनाइएको छ।

आजको असम बन्द विशेष गरी शोणितपूर जिल्लामा भारतीय गोर्खा परिसंघले पनि आयोजन गरेको थियो। प्रहरी र गाउँका मानिसहरूमाझ संघर्ष हुँदा त्यहॉं स्थिति तनाउ पूर्ण बनेको छ भने कतिपय गाउँलेहरू घर छोड़ी सुरक्षति स्थानतिर भागिरहेका पनि छन्।

आज बालिचाङ खोलामा 11 जना मृतकहरूको लाशलाई सामुहिकरुपमा दाहसंस्कार गरिएको छ।अहिले विभिन्न संगठनहरू र राजनीतिक दलहरूले आवाज उठाएपछि असमका तरुण गोगइ सरकारले केही कदम चाल्दै त्यहॉं मन्त्रीहरूको एक दल पठाएको छ तर गाउँलेहरूले उनीहरूलाई पनि अवरोध गरेका छन्। केन्द्र सरकारले पनि यसबारे स्थितिको जायजा असम सरकारबाट लिइरहेको छ।

अर्कोतिर भारतीय गोर्खा परिसंघ असम राज्य शाखाका महासचिव किशोर उपाध्यायले बताए अनुसार भागोपले पहिले 20 जना नेपाली वा गोर्खाहरूको हत्या भएको बताए पनि अहिले जम्मा 12 जना मानिसहरूको हत्या भएको तथा तीमध्ये7 जना गोर्खा समुदायको रहेको बताए।उनले आज शोणितपूरमा भागोपले पूर्णरुपले बन्द सफल भएको जनाउँदै प्रशासनले असमका नेपाली वा गोर्खा समुदायलाई यसरी बार बार आतंकवादीहरूले लक्ष्य गरिरहेको जनाउँदै सरकारले उचित कदम समयमा नै लिनुपर्ने नत्र स्थिति अझ बिग्रेर जाने बताए।

फोटोः गाउँ छोड़ेऱ भाग्नेहरू, आफन्तको हत्यामा रोइरहेका नारी, आक्रोशित गाउँलेहरू तथा पुलिससित आक्रोशितत गाउँलेहरूको झड़प। फोटो सौजन्यः पवित्र

BGP RELEASE ON VIOLENCE IN ASSAM

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BGP strongly condemns Assam massacre

Himalayan Express,6 Oct, Gangtok: The apex body of the Indian Gorkha community, Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh (BGP) has strongly condemned the massacre of 12 innocent persons including 7 Nepali speaking persons by militants at Bhimjuli village, Sonitpur district in Assam.

Strongly condemning the incident in a press conference here today, BGP working president CK Shrestha and Prabin Khaling (National Excutative commitee Member from Sikkim) today slammed Assam government for failing to take appropriate preventive measures. Locals have alleged that that Assam government did not take the matter seriously even as the extortion activities of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants were going on in the area, said Mr. Shrestha. Yesterday also the militants had demanded a large sum of money from the residents of the Gorkha dominated area of Bhimjuli but the residents had resisted the militants and had demanded protection from the State government which led to massacre by the NDFB militants, he claimed.

“If the Assam government had taken the matter seriously by providing adequate security, lives of so many innocent people would have not been lost”, said the BGP working president. He further informed that the Assam State unit of BGP will be preparing a report on the massacre and meet the State government for compensation and proper security arrangements in the area.

The BGP central committee also demands an immediate intervention from the Centre, said Mr. Shrestha. He informed that a memorandum has already been faxed to the President and Prime Minister of India.

Mr. Shrestha warned that a nationwide protest will be launched by BGP if the government fails to make proper security arrangements for the Indian Gorkha community.

Meanwhile, the Assam State unit of BGP has called a 12 hour strike tomorrow at Sonitpur district to register its protest against the killings. Protest rallies will also be taken out by BGP in several areas of the district, it is informed.

असममा गोर्खाहरूको निर्मम हत्या भएकोमा विभिन्न दल एवं संस्थाहरूद्वारा घोर निन्दा

गान्तोक, 5 अक्टोबर: (प्रकाश): असमको शोणितपूर जिल्लामा प्रतिबन्धित उग्रवादी संगठन एनडीएफबीले हिजो बेलुकी अन्धाधुन्ध गोली चलाएर गरेको हया काण्डमा विभिन्न राजनीतिक दल एवं संगठनहरूले आज सिक्किमबाट सो घटनाको घोर निन्दा गर्दै भसर्ना गरेका छन्‌। सिक्किम प्रदेश कांग्रेसका अध्यक्ष तथा पूर्व मुख्यमन्त्री नरबहादुर भण्डारीले घटनाको विरोध गर्दै कांग्रेस पार्टी सधैं अहिंसाको बाटोमा हिंड़ने पार्टी भएकोले उत घटनालाई पार्टीको तर्फबाट भसर्ना गर्दछ भनी जनाएका छन्‌।

अर्कोतिर गोर्खा जनमुति मोर्चाका प्रचार सचिव डा. हर्कबहादुर छेत्रीले घटनाको विरोध गर्दै गोजमुमोको तर्फबाट भसर्ना जनाएका छन्‌।गोजमुमोले गोर्खाहरूको अस्तिव एवं पहिचानको लागि संघर्ष गरिरहेको छ तथा जुन प्रकारले असममा गोर्खाहरूको निर्मम हया भएको छ, यो अति नै निन्दनीय भएको बताउँदै गोजमुमोको तर्फबाट उनले यसको भसर्ना गरे तथा चॉंड़ै नै गोजमुमोको केन्द्रीय समितिको बैठक बसी घटनाबारे पूर्ण जानकारी लिने कुरो जनाएका छन्‌।

गोर्खा जागरण समाजको पक्षमा महासचिव शेखर खवासले सो घटनाको तीब्र प्रतिक्रिया र निन्दा गर्दै असम सरकारले असमका गोर्खाहरूको पूर्ण सुरक्षा गर्नुपर्दछ भन्ने माग राखेका छन्‌।यस्तो दु:खद् घड़ीमा सबै भारतीय गोर्खाहरू दलगत राजनीतिदेखि माथि उठेर एक हुनुपर्दछ, उनले जनाए।

यसै गरी मातृभूमी सुरक्षा संगठनका संयोजक डुकनाथ नेपालले घटनाको निन्दा गर्दै भारतीय नेपाली एवं सिक्किमका नेपालीहरूको सो घटनामा संवेदना जोड़िएको हुनाले सो सिक्किम सरकारले पनि यसबारे बोलिदिनुपर्दछ भनेका छन्‌।

बोडोल्याण्ड क्षेत्रीय परिषद्का एक मात्र कार्यकारी गोर्खा पार्षद् माधव कार्कीले असमबाट जानकारी दिंदै घटनाको निन्दा गरेका छन्‌ तथा असम सरकारले गोर्खाहरूको सुरक्षा दिन असमर्थ रहेको बताएका छन्‌। यसका साथै उनले असम सरकारले गोर्खाहरूलाई पूर्ण सुरक्षा दिनुपर्छ भनी माग गरेका छन्‌ तथा मृतकका परिवारहरूप्रति असम सरकारले पॉंच लाख रुपियॉं गरी क्षतिपूर्ति प्रदान गर्नुपर्दछ भनी माग गरेका छन्‌।

यसरी नै यो घटनाको घोर विरोध र निन्दा गर्दै असमको गोर्खा छात्रहरूको संस्थान्‌ अखिल असम गोर्खा छात्र संघले भोलि 12 घण्टाको असम बन्द डाकेको छ। Source: HIMGIRI

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Rs.1013 crore sanctioned for connecting Sevoke –Rangpo rail link

HE, Siliguri, October 4: Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today laid the foundation for the country’s first multifunctional complex at Siliguri junction here today.

Mamata explained that Siliguri had been chosen as the first venue for setting up such a complex because the region in the north Bengal was one of the country’s most deprived and neglected areas.

A multifunctional complex is a big area, close to a station, having facilities like car parking, marketing, hotels, shops and railway complexes.

Pointing out that such a concept, when implemented, would help generate employment and foster development, she said she had plans of establishing a few more multifunctional complexes around the country.

Mamata also announced that Rs.1013 crore had been sanctioned and work programme readied for connecting Sevoke and Rangpo in Sikkim considering the tourism potential of the area. Presently Sikkim has no railway track.

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Consolidated Status of Influenza A H1N1 as on 6th October 2009 19:23 IST (As on 6th October 2009) Sl. State Lab confirmed cases reported during the day Lab confirmed cases cumulative Death of Lab confirmed cases during the day Death of Lab confirmed cases cumulative 1. Delhi 31 2868 0 15 2. Andhra Pradesh 15 685 1 38 3. Karnataka 37 1166 0 101 4. Tamil Nadu 25 1342 0 4 5. Maharashtra 34 3106 2 147 6. Kerala 22 429 0 5 7. Punjab 0 37 0 0 8. Haryana 7 619 0 4 9. Chandigarh(UT) 0 50 0 0 10. Goa 1 40 0 3 11. West Bengal 1 125 0 0 12. Uttarakhand 0 62 0 2 13. Himachal Pradesh 0 3 0 0 14. Jammu & Kashmir 1 41 0 0 15. Gujarat 4 203 1 36 16. Manipur 0 1 0 0 17. Meghalaya 0 6 0 0 18. Mizoram 0 3 0 0 19. Assam 0 45 0 0 20. Jharkhand 0 1 0 0 21. Rajasthan 0 31 0 1 22. Bihar 1 5 0 0 23. Uttar Pradesh 6 347 0 2 24. Puducherry 0 10 0 0 25. Chattishgarh 0 16 0 1 26. Madhya Pradesh 0 6 0 0 27. Daman & Diu 0 1 0 0 28. Orissa 0 3 0 0 29. Nagaland 0 2 0 0 Total 185 11253 4 359 Note: 1. On 5th October 2009, 45196 passengers have been screened at 22 Airports with 83 counters manned by 225doctors and 172 paramedics. Total passengers screened till date is 6788208. 2. Till date, samples from 47145 persons have been tested for Influenza A H1N1 in Government Laboratoriesand a few private Laboratories across the country and 11253 (23.8%) of them have been found positive. 3. Of the 185 cases reported during the day; all are indigenous cases. 4. Four deaths have been reported during the day (Andhra Pradesh 1, Maharashtra 2 and Gujarat 1). 5. Laboratory confirmation of 1 death from Andhra Pradesh, 2 from Maharashtra and 1 from Karnataka havebeen received from the respective State Health departments, and are now reflected in the cumulative total.