SILCHAR, Feb 22: The Cachar unit of Barak Upatyaka Banga Sahitya-O-Samskriti Sammelon (BUBSSS) has expressed dissatisfaction as well as resentment over the indifferent attitude of Tea Association of India (TAI) towards this premiere of socio-cultural organization of the valley. TAI, which had 65% of total tea gardens in the valley as its members, did not consider it worth to respond to the appeal made by BUBSSS to extend assistance in its recently held biennial conference.
Addressing a press meet, the members of BUBSSS said in a recently held meeting of the tea garden management that the planters has openly admitted that last year the production of tea in the Barak Valley was remarkably good. “It is very unfortunate that the tea gardeners has never contributed towards the development of the Valley. They have never bothered about the socio-cultural upliftment of the region where they are doing business ”, said Taimur Raja Choudhury, a senior member of BUBSSS.
The BUBSS members said, another tea body– Indian Tea Association had however extended financial assistance to the conference. Interestingly, the BUBSSS members admitted that this time various other associations of business community has refused to extend help to the premiere organization, though some traders had personally contributed.
The BUBSSS members expressed dissatisfaction over the lukewarm response they had received from Dinesh Prasad Goala, State’s Urban Development Minister. Goala did not attend the conference though he was in the town. Simultaneously the participation from the Assam University teaching and student community in the seminar session was very disappointing, the BUBSS members added.
Dinendra Narayan Biswas, president of the Cachar unit of BUBSSS said, it was indeed a matter of significance that for the first time the conference was attended by a representative of Lingusitic Minority Commission. S K Upadhyay, Assisatnt Commissioner of LMC who attended the open session here has assured that he would look after the various demands of BUBSSS for the upliftment of Bengali speaking community of the State.
Pradip Acharjee, general secretary informed that for the first time the Central government’s Minority Affairs Ministry has invited BUBSSS to participate the International Mother Language Day, held on February in Delhi. Though BUBSSS could not make it to send a delegate this time, but the response from the Central government had made them optimistic that their demands would now at least get an audience at the Central level. Upadhyay has reportedly assured that from now onwards various government leaflets, brochures and other communications for Barak Valley would be sent in Bengali language. Others who addressed the press-meet included Sourindra Bhattacharjee, Dipak Sengupta, Shantanu Das, Gautam Prasad Dutta, Sanjeeb Dev Laskar and Sontosh Chanda. source: the sentinel assam
Addressing a press meet, the members of BUBSSS said in a recently held meeting of the tea garden management that the planters has openly admitted that last year the production of tea in the Barak Valley was remarkably good. “It is very unfortunate that the tea gardeners has never contributed towards the development of the Valley. They have never bothered about the socio-cultural upliftment of the region where they are doing business ”, said Taimur Raja Choudhury, a senior member of BUBSSS.
The BUBSS members said, another tea body– Indian Tea Association had however extended financial assistance to the conference. Interestingly, the BUBSSS members admitted that this time various other associations of business community has refused to extend help to the premiere organization, though some traders had personally contributed.
The BUBSSS members expressed dissatisfaction over the lukewarm response they had received from Dinesh Prasad Goala, State’s Urban Development Minister. Goala did not attend the conference though he was in the town. Simultaneously the participation from the Assam University teaching and student community in the seminar session was very disappointing, the BUBSS members added.
Dinendra Narayan Biswas, president of the Cachar unit of BUBSSS said, it was indeed a matter of significance that for the first time the conference was attended by a representative of Lingusitic Minority Commission. S K Upadhyay, Assisatnt Commissioner of LMC who attended the open session here has assured that he would look after the various demands of BUBSSS for the upliftment of Bengali speaking community of the State.
Pradip Acharjee, general secretary informed that for the first time the Central government’s Minority Affairs Ministry has invited BUBSSS to participate the International Mother Language Day, held on February in Delhi. Though BUBSSS could not make it to send a delegate this time, but the response from the Central government had made them optimistic that their demands would now at least get an audience at the Central level. Upadhyay has reportedly assured that from now onwards various government leaflets, brochures and other communications for Barak Valley would be sent in Bengali language. Others who addressed the press-meet included Sourindra Bhattacharjee, Dipak Sengupta, Shantanu Das, Gautam Prasad Dutta, Sanjeeb Dev Laskar and Sontosh Chanda. source: the sentinel assam
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