Azad Hind Volunteers’ mission successful

Azad Hind Volunteers’ mission successful
Correspondent
KARIMGANJ, Dec 8 – With a view to creating pressure on the Union Government to unravel the mystery that shrouds the disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the Azad Hind Volunteers, an organisation of Netaji followers set out on a two-month mission from Silchar to Delhi recently.

Group leader Paritosh Paul Chaudhury termed the mission as a tremendous success and said love and respect for the great leader is still vibrant in the minds of the common people.

Paritosh Paul Choudhury started the mission on September 23 from Silchar alongwith 15 volunteers and travelled 6500 km crossing over nine states. They addressed public gathering at 112 places which were attended by prominent leaders like BJP leader VK Malhotra, BTC chief Hagrama Mohilary and former MP from Meghalaya BB Dutta. He said, the journey was an adventure as one of their members was picked up by Naga militants in Manipur. But when the militants were conveyed the exact identity of the boy they had picked up they unhesitatingly returned him next morning.

In Shillong the team met JN Bawri who escorted Netaji by his taxi when the great fighter visited Meghalyaa in 1938. Paul Chaudhury and his team was given a warm reception in Imphal, Tezpur, Guwahati, Mangaldoi, Patna, Ranchi, Allahabad etc.

But unfortunately people of Left-ruled Bengal are still hesitant to express their respect for Netaji fearing that this might anger the rulers, said Paritosh Paul Choudhury.

In Delhi, the team met Somnath Chatterjee, Lok Sabha Speaker who assured them of cooperation, placing the demands they have been pursuing in the proper place. Paul Choudhury expressed gratefulness to Union Minister Santosh Mohan Dev who helped them immensely. SM Dev spoke to the Prime Minister and informed about their mission.

Azad Hind Volunteers had placed four demands in front of the government. These are firstly, to place the report of the Mukherjee Commission in Parliament and allow the members to take part in the debate. Secondly, to declare that the ashes preserved in the Rankoji Temple of Japan are not the ashes of Netaji, and thirdly to declare Netaji as the first President of India as the Azad Hind Govt was legally formed and was a recognised govt and finally to name the Andaman and Nicobar Islands as Shahi and Swaraj islands. source: assam tribune

Karimganj IM(DT) tribunals working at snail’s pace
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KARIMGANJ, Dec 11 – Neither the Centre nor the State government seems to be serious about the functioning of foreigners’ tribunals in Barak Valley. With the annulment of IM(DT) Act of 1983 it was expected that foreigners’ tribunals would be revamped to deal with the cases of aliens or D-voters, but the ground reality is different.

The classic example is of Karimganj foreigners’ tribunal. 85,000 cases under D-voters lying with the foreigners tribunal could not be disposed of due to acute shortage of staff. Notices could not be sent to all the persons listed as D-voters by the election wing of Karimganj district administration. Notices till date could be sent to 1200 persons only. 90 per cent of them who appeared before the tribunal have been declared bonafide citizens. But, they could not obtain citizenship certificates on the ground that there is no staff to issued them.

Interviews have been held for appointments to fill in the vacancies but it has so far remained on paper only. Those declared bonafide citizens are being harassed by the police as they can not produce certified copies of their citizenship.

In the wake of the revision of voters lists for the Lok Sabha polls there is apprehensions that their names might be deleted from the electoral rolls. Political parties have been insisting on adding more staff to the tribunal in order to deal with the large volume of pending cases.

GP office site: GP members and people in general of Nutan Ramnagar Part-3 in Lakhipur subdivision in a memorandum to the chief executive officer, Cachar Zila Parishad demanded settlement of a site for the GP office and sought permission to set up temporarily the working office in the complex of Ranu Singh Memorial Club. Their demand is backed by the fact that the geographical area of Nutan Ramnagar GP is contiguous to several villages scattered around but without connectivity problem.

One GP office building was constructed in the village of Nutan Ramnagar Part-4, popularly known as Gorokandi which is quite isolated. Most of the villagers and its residents are far away distanced from the office. The GP office at Gorokandi they alleged was constructed at the behest of GP president Lal Nehar Begum Laskar without taking the consent of the members and residents of the area.

Even the residence of the GP president and majority of its members are located in Nutan Ramnagar Part-1, 2 and 3 which justifies the establishment of GP office at Part-3 Nutan Ramnagar with easy accessibility. Their representation states that since the present GP president and most of the members have also agreed to shift the office to Part-3 area, it may be allowed to function from the complex of Ranu Singh Memorial Club till the new office comes up.

Foundation stone laid: Dr Rumi Nath, BJP MLA, recently laid foundation stone of Hiyairbond sub-centre under National Rural Health Mission under Sonapur GP. On the occasion, a simple function was organised which was presided over by Paritosh Roy.

Narayan Chandra Das, headmaster of Hiyairbond LP School speaking on the occasion praised the efforts of Dr Rumi Nath for the socio-economic and academic improvement as well as uplift of masses in the rural areas, besides making sincere move to provide better health services.

MLA Dr Rumi Nath said that this sub-centre would be equipped with necessary medical tools and implements. She also added to say that basic medicines would be made available to the poor and needy people of the area. She will also make efforts for the appointment of auxiliary midwife and nurse. She at the same time spoke of the need of health sub-centres at Boulbasti, Shantinagar, Subhang, Kandigram, Narayancherra and Anandarkul.

The MLA also laid foundation stone of several LP Schools which included Mukaltal ME School, Rabali ME Madrasa, Rajnagar ME School, Patharigram LP School, Algapur LP School, Manikpur LP School and Nishintapur LP School, Phulendra Kalita Inspector of Schools was present during the foundation stone laying ceremony. source: assam tribune

World Disabled Day observed at Badarpur
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BADARPUR, Dec 11 – The World Disabled Day was observed at Badarpur, by the Handicapped Society of Badarpur.

On the occasion, various functions were held alongwith ‘disabled-meet’ at Badarpur Nabin Chandra College on December 3. Principal of Badarpur Nabin Chandra College, Alpana Paul, a huge gathering of several sections of disabled people, leading citizens, intellectuals, educationists, members of various social organisations, NGOs etc. participated. The Karimganj deputy commissioner, Dr Bhupendra Nath Sarmah in his valuable speech explained the significance of the day. Dr Sarmah also informed the meet of various steps, taken by the government for the welfare of the disabled people.

Besides the DC, Karimganj several distinguished speakers discussed the various problems of the disabled people and earnestly appealed to the government to solve their problems immediately. The speakers also stated that – for the welfare of these disabled people, the government should extend their help to them as they can live in the society in proper way.

In this connection, the Badarpur Handicapped Society also submitted a seven-point charter of demands to the deputy commissioner of Karimganj on the occasion. These demands include immediate arrangement to set up a permanent rehabilitation centre at Badarpur Ghat Industrial Centre, to give the disabled all sorts of facilities of Indira Awas Yojana and other schemes, to legally reserve seats in government and non-government vehicles for all handicapped people positively, and proper implementation of the principle of job recruitment of the disabled people at all levels etc.

Earlier, a long procession of Badarpur Handicapped Society was also brought out in the town. A cultural function wa also held on this occasion, where different sections of disabled people participated . The entire programme was conducted by the general secretary of the Badarpur Handicapped Society, Samar Bijoy Acharjee. The meeting was also addressed by the DC of Karimganj Dr BN Sarma, principal of Badarpur NC College, Alpana Paul, ex-vice principal of the NC College, Kiran Sankar Roy, Dr Shib Tapan Basu, Mahadev Roy Karmakar among others.
source: assam tribune

Hailakandi gets instant money order system
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HAILAKANDI, Dec 14 – Eminent poet and the editor of Sahitya, Bijit Kumar Bhattacharjee recently inaugurated the instant money order system at the head post office of Hailakandi. In his inaugural address, Bhattacharjee expressed his hope that the people of Hailakandi district will largely be benefited after the introduction of this instant money order system. He expressed serious concern over the poor telephone link in Hailakandi district particularly internet services and said that this will definitely hamper the entire system of instant money order. He urged the telephone authorities to develop the entire network in the district.

Explaining the purpose of the meeting, senior superintendent of post pffices, Cachar division, Silchar, Atul Bora said that it was a long pending demand of the people of Hailakandi to introduce instant money order system as the people are still largely dependent on it. He urged the staff of post office to maintain this service properly.

The postmaster of Hailakandi head post office, AR Talukdar offered vote of thanks in the inaugural meeting.

AIDS Day: Under the auspices of district administration and Health department, the World AIDS Day was observed recently in Hailakandi . A rally was brought out on the main thoroughfares of Hailakandi town in the morning. Members of NGOs, officials, mediapersons, band party and the local citizens participated in the rally with placards and banners. The rally was flagged off by the deputy commissioner Tapan Chandra Goswami.
source: assam tribune