Malda Training Diary - Administrative Training Institute
Malda Training Diary - Administrative Training Institute
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as curious how carefully these bones had been covered with baskets of wire. All the Muslim<br />
men were absconding, & we heard that some of them had been sent to Bhaluka Road H.P.<br />
Getting the Muslim women to open the doors was a problem till they recognised the<br />
Chowkidar’s voice!<br />
We proceeded to Bhaluka Road, and my jeep’s differential got jammed in the kuccha road.<br />
Asking the DSP to drive on, I sent the Home guard who brought 2 villagers with implements<br />
to dig away the raised portions of the road. Drove on, joined the other jeep at the river bank,<br />
walked across the makeshift mud path over it. With the OC, brought back Taleb, Mofizuddin<br />
& Hasruddin from the health centre. First two had head wounds & claimed they were<br />
sightseers only & had no weapons & that the Noniyas were drunk totally.<br />
Returned to Chanchol at 4 a.m. keeping 4 armed police in the village. At 1 p.m. went with<br />
OC again to Kapasia where the BDO, Anchal Pradhan held a peace meeting. Both<br />
communities apologised and signed a bond to keep peace& amity. I got back to Chanchol at<br />
4.30 p.m. to find the Asp leaving for Kapasia. Told him everything. He left to see for himself.<br />
Feels that it should be played down and so a police camp is inadvisable. He intends to keep<br />
the cases hanging & then drop them.<br />
I left at 5 pm and reached <strong>Malda</strong> at 7.30 p.m., 28 th , quite tired. No trouble elsewhere, as I<br />
checked up from Ratua & Harishchandrapur thana over the phone every now and then. Also<br />
called on Ratua OC on way back to confirm it.<br />
29.1.1972<br />
Work done<br />
Repatriation at Kutubsahar<br />
Information<br />
Some 1500 by train and 1550 by trucks repatriated. The problem of disputed and<br />
contradictory Regn. certificates is still ever there. People keep arriving begging for Identity<br />
Slips. A close watch on genuineness of Registration Certificates is needed as many earlier<br />
refugees are slipping out by taking these.<br />
The DM visited the camp in the morning with former ADM evacuees-in-charge, Mr.T.K.Das,<br />
now liaison officer in Rajshahi. It was settled that on 31 st the entire camp staff would go to<br />
Rajshahi town including myself.<br />
The DM, when I told him about Kapasia, said he had sent me to Chanchol knowing some<br />
trouble was bound to occur!<br />
Went to Singhabad RS [about 30 km. from Kutubsahar]. Trains are reaching around 11 p.m.<br />
Wrote a letter to S.M. <strong>Malda</strong> requesting early trains to leave Adina by 1 p.m. so that evacuees<br />
do not suffer over much. From here 6 trucks carry them over horrible roads to Rohanpur [10<br />
miles] where they entrain again.<br />
30.1.1972<br />
Work done<br />
Repatriation at Nawabganj & Shibganj & Adina.<br />
Persons met<br />
T.K.Das, IAS—ADM Liaison, Rajshahi<br />
Information<br />
Met ADM T.K Das, liaison officer Rajshahi, IAS 1968 batch, MA (Econ) from Cal. Univ.,<br />
1964. He sat for IAS professional test in 1971 as in 1969 he missed it through an arm broken<br />
in the riding test. He is officially still on probation, which was extended up to July ‘71. After<br />
it AG has issued no pay slip, so through DM he draws “last pay drawn” every month! No<br />
letter yet from GOI ending his probation. Muddle because as ADM he gets Sr. scale, though<br />
no probationer can get over Rs. 400/-.<br />
He said ADMs of Basirhat, Bongaon (i.e. 24 Parganas) and Cooch Behar, and DMs of Nadia<br />
& <strong>Malda</strong> had done real work & not those decorated (except SDO Bongaon). He agreed that