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Malda Training Diary - Administrative Training Institute

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Page 111 of 111<br />

17. semi-mechanical bakery<br />

24.6.1972<br />

Work done<br />

Snaps of filature at Madhughat<br />

Sericulture information<br />

Information<br />

Along with Raha and staff of Peddie silk reeling institute Amal Datta [maternal uncle of<br />

Bimal Das, CPI MLA] went to filature. Datta took photos of reeling, re-reeling, cooking,<br />

cocoons, making “books” from hanks.<br />

Planned outing to explore Sataisghara tomorrow with Raha.<br />

25.6.1972<br />

Explored Sataisghara 8 a.m. to 230 p.m. Mr.Datta took photos. With help of a local santhal,<br />

traced a field to east of Sataisghara where I found some Buddhist statues and even a broken<br />

effigy of Dakhin Rai, worshipped in Sunderbans as god of tigers. Went to the ultimate end<br />

and found the moat at the other boundary of this palace area along with 2 hillocks which were<br />

towers at one time according to Abid Ali.<br />

26.6.1972<br />

Work done<br />

I class case attended<br />

Visit to jail for training<br />

Information<br />

G.R.713/70, State vs. Ujjal Chakravarty u/s 5 and 6 of Explosives Act attended.<br />

Went for jail training to jail. A couple of petitions were made by some prisoners against cases<br />

vs. them pending for over 2 years. I told the jailor, PC Talukdar, to note their cases and let me<br />

have the petitions next day.<br />

In the jail, besides checking the stock register of supplies, one should also check, the SDO<br />

told me, :-<br />

a. supply according to number of prisoners and cooking of same amount 142 gm rice per<br />

head. Atta mixed with bajra given at night. One day meat, another day fish for 1 meal.<br />

In the morning, 30 gm sattu.<br />

b. Hygienic conditions of stay and of cooking.<br />

c. Random check of entry and exit register of prisoners.<br />

In the evening called on Prof Santosh Chakravarty and borrowed a few Bengali books<br />

including a superb article on the Ramayana by Buddhadev Bose.<br />

27.6.1972<br />

Work done<br />

Information from sericulture, SEB.<br />

Work in SOPD office<br />

Information<br />

Did not go to jail at 7 a.m. as planned as P.Chakravarti, our ex-NDC, turned up as my roommate<br />

as he is to depose as witness in a sessions case.<br />

From Raha obtained information that sericulture in <strong>Malda</strong> had reached near-saturation point.<br />

Irrigation etc. would enhance crop of mulberry by 10 or 15 maunds to 25 to 35 maunds per<br />

acre per crop, but thereafter the law of diminishing returns would apply. Rather shift accent<br />

to W.Dinajpur—a place called Gokhra in Raiganj subdivision where water is just a few feet<br />

below the surface and conditions are ideal for mulberry. Jainal Abedin, Commerce and SSI<br />

minister is from West Dinajpur and wants it flooded with silk.<br />

D.E., SEB, told me of their requirements: steel 800 MT [50 got so far]; cement 300 MT [50<br />

bags so far]; poles 50,000 [10,000 so far].

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