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Malda Training Diary - Administrative Training Institute

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Repatriation payment is facing difficulties as bank is giving 10s & 100s (rupee notes), & not<br />

1s & 2s as required. Advised them to get change from UBI. This was approved by DM. Daily<br />

about Rs.10,000 is brought to Kutubsahar camp.<br />

The evacuees are all from the working class (agriculturist); extremely poor, mostly with just<br />

one piece of cloth. The repatriation work continues till 12 midnight; hampered because<br />

original schedule of a batch leaving by 10 th has been changed, necessitating extra rations &<br />

erasures & re-writing of rolls.<br />

The Medical Officer in charge is from Bangladesh. Well-controlled & healthy people now,<br />

clean & well organised huge camp. At first dysentery, diarrhoea, cholera were rife & killed<br />

dozens.<br />

DM, seeing our conveyance problem, has offered us a Mukti Fouj (MF) jeep.<br />

At SDO's office saw an evacuee girl of 20. SDO said she was at the head of the MF female<br />

wing & used stengun & 3” mortar despite her frail figure. Local school students came to SDO<br />

agitating for removal of the Acting Head Master He firmly heard them & sent them away.<br />

They left uttering threats.<br />

18.1.1972<br />

Work done<br />

Visited Karjadanga Camp, Gazol & Bamangola BDO offices. Attended farewell meeting of<br />

Constituent Assembly of Bangla Desh.<br />

Conducted enquiry into theft from Evacuee Stores.<br />

Persons met<br />

Sudhanshu Kr. Das : BDO, Bamangola, WBJCS<br />

Sailendra Nath Majumdar : Special Tribal Welfare Officer; also OC Evacuee Supplies,<br />

WBJCS.<br />

Rathin Kar : Dy. Mag, Dist Panchayet Offr, WBCS 1966.<br />

Ram Prasanna Roy : Ex-M.P, Congress.<br />

Kamal Kumar Guha : S.P.(1954), here since 1969.<br />

Information gathered<br />

Conducted enquiry into theft of some rice, wheat, dal, milk powder from store-room of<br />

Nanda Dulal Sarkar, Store-Keeper Evacuee. Interrogated him, Sunil Mitra (LDC),<br />

D.Banerjee [M.V.I Tech], Harendra Nath Chowdhury [Nightguard], Sachindra Lal Dey<br />

[Office Peon]. Discovered curious inconsistence between F.I.R & Nanda Babu’s statement<br />

before me about stores & total contrast with Mitra’s statement regarding time of discovery of<br />

theft. Prima facie can’t fix responsibility on anyone. Interesting that theft attempt occurred in<br />

Court & stores on 24/12/ 71.<br />

The Stock Register & receipt shows that on 25/9/ 71, 2 bags of rice [1 Qtl.], 1 bag wheat [95<br />

kg], 1 bag Dal [60 kg], arrived. But Nanda Babu says 2 bags of wheat. No record of milk<br />

powder bags at all.<br />

Around 1 p.m. proceeded by Red Cross jeep wagon [MRX 3451 donated by Maharashtra BD<br />

Aid Committee; did much M.Fouj work] to:-<br />

1. BDO Gazol. Instructed him to auction Karjadanga shelter materials.<br />

2. Karjadanga [26 miles from <strong>Malda</strong>]. Excellent shelters. Originally 5000 evacuees. All<br />

leaving on their own, leaving only about 150 families (i.e. about 700 heads) to<br />

proceed as per Govt. programme on 21 st , 22 nd , 23 rd , on which trains carrying total of<br />

12000 capacity with run. Hence, requested DM to have them stop at Adina so that<br />

Kutubshahar evacuees, going on their own, could board it.<br />

The OC (ex-Army) complained against inefficiency of the 7 Home Guards [they demand<br />

rations, which is not authorised, skip work & say they are afraid to do night duty]. Conveyed<br />

this to DM at 9 p.m.

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