Malda Training Diary - Administrative Training Institute
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.