Malda Training Diary - Administrative Training Institute

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file. He had all doors closed and asked only officials & MLAs to be allowed. The District
Congress, Press & Y.C. President were not allowed to enter.
CM first took down names of all BDOs and asked them the crop conditions, no. employed
under TR, starvation deaths. Except for Harishchandrapur-I, Kaliachak II & III, E.B. the
other Blocks are in bad condition & there is acute malnutrition in every block.
Harishchandrapur has stopped TR as earth is not available, nor labour after 9 inches rain it
has had recently.
Kal III : 1000 employed daily
Kh I : 4000
Bgola : 12000
Habibpur : 8960
Kal I : 2000
Manikchak : 2000
Hcpur II : 10,000
Old Malda : 4000
Kh II : 5500 [including PWD]
Hcpur I : 300 [PWD]
R I : 8500 (+PWD)
R II : 8100 (-do-)
Kal II : 1500
E.B. : 500
Gajol : 20,000. Reports of 2 starvation deaths found baseless as they had eaten
that very day as also earlier days. CM said not to insist on cutting of 80 cft of earth.
CM announced the following programmes to be taken up at once integrated with relief work
to restore the loss of purchasing power of people, so give cash:-
(a) Homestead: 1000 sqft vested land + Rs.150 to landless rural labourer without land; if has
a little non-agr. land, then just Rs.150; if no khas land available than Rs.75 to buy it (= 20
times of annual rent) + Rs. 150.
MLAs to help in keeping watch that money is not eaten up.
(b) Flood Control Schemes: Mahananda scheme--raise labour force from 1000 to 6000.
(c) Family Planning: Immediate need is 300 MT cement– i.e. 15 wagons. Employment will
be 2000. CM asked telex to be sent to B.R.Gupta for allotting cement wagons to PWD.
Employees to be taken from panel fixed by BDO. Preference to local unemployed engineers
in tenders, specifying Rs. 2.50 wages & BDO’s panel of labour giving preference to families
without any earning members.
(d) Special Water Supply Scheme: Tubewells sunk in blocks: CM berated BDOs for
hesitating on going beyond target of 35 despite extra cash left. This attitude of Govt. Officers
was responsible for sorry state of people. He said unless we implemented schemes we would
not be spared if this Govt. fell. Why did they not observe his press statements and act
accordingly, without waiting for govt. orders? [Who would save us from audit queries then,
one asks?]
(e) CSRE: 31 pending with Govt., 8 sanctioned. CM said that 18 more would be sanctioned at
once (this came next day).
CM confidentially wanted collection of land rev. to be stopped & GR 10% ad hoc to be
given, also in town but not announced [but in press conference he announced both]
Marwari Relief society to feed 25000 daily in 5 centres, to include pregnant & nursing
women.
All BDOs to give information on :-
1. Rainfall up to date this year vs. normal.
2. Aman normal, & this year’s transplantation.