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Page 48 of 48 Hence we rushed to the DM and asked for 20 requisition trucks. He agreed & told me he was immediately sending 5 trucks to Rajshahi as without these all distribution of relief material had been held up! I insisted he must not without replacing every one of the 20 he means to send soon, in instalments. He said he would tell the ADM to do this immediately. He also imparted the astonishing news that the Home Secy. who was arriving here on 21 st . wanted me to meet him!!! I suspect it is all DM’s doing, because he told me when I demanded trucks: “When you are working so very well, why shouldn’t I give you trucks”. I felt immensely pleased, specially because beyond running here & there & co-ordinating the movement, I’ve been doing nothing extra. The actual loading etc. has been left to the camp staff. However, in Kutubsahar, I had done that too. I came back caked with dust all over. I haven’t dared to look at myself in the mirror especially at my hair! I received my LPC from NAA yesterday & today the T.O said I could draw my pay on its basis. 20.2.1972 Work done Visiting airfield with DM & SP to fix arrangements for PM’s public meeting. Meeting with Home Secy, W.B in evening. Persons met M.M Kusari: Home Secy. W.B. D.C. Mukherjee: I.G. Prisons Information I managed to send off some 20 trucks to Ramkeli, Kuriapara and Kaluadighi today, waiting apprehensively for DM’s orders about 5 trucks! In the evening reminded him & he told ADM to get me 20 trucks. ADM was in a fix as to how to get them! I’ll have to be after him. Tomorrow I will go with him on his tour of River Lift Irrigation Schemes with the Agricultural Commissioner, as it will give me a good idea about Malda’s agricultural state. In morning, accompanied DM to the airfield along with SP & PWD Asst. Eng., where with great difficulty we chalked out the arrangements of the crowd for her meeting on 29 th . Main problem was that (150 x 150) sq. metres was being taken by the helipad, as also the blueprint for her meeting sent by Delhi was difficult to superimpose on our available space. Around 7 p.m. a peon summoned me to the DM. Guessing that the Home Secy had arrived before time I went in my formal suit. At first he paid me no attention, but later asked about my previous job (as lecturer in English) & highly approved of my having left it. Our ADM had also taught Economics in a college, like R.Kar too. Kusari said Asst. Magis. were the most anglicised & pointed out my buttoned up coat, which he said he hardly even wore & that I shouldn’t make any more. He said he wore dhoti & kurta at dinner & even at the huge banquet for Mujib & the DM. He said I’d find all I had learned at NAA useless academic stuff, & reminisced about how in Metcalfe House his batch would come to dinner in lungis & care two hoots for knives & forks & how the Principal Mr.Bapat condoned it fully! The DM was in shirt-sleeves, the SP in uniform, ADM in coat & tie, Kusari in a lounge suit (despite all his Bengaliness!). He is from Dacca, it seems. He & DM are on most friendly terms. He was accompanied by DM’s batch-mate, I.G prisons, who paid a surprise visit then to the jail & criticised it for having just one sentry & said a jail break was easy. In the morning, while waiting for DM I talked to Mrs.De. He himself was a lecturer in Economics (MA Cal.Univ.) having studied Econ Hons. purely on his own in E.Pak as no Hons. was available in his college though’ Univ. gave him special permission for it. As eldest son, he had a very tough life supporting his parents, brothers & sisters who only now have become independent finally. They have a 3 Kattah plot in Salt Lakes & 2 sons in classes 10 &
Page 49 of 49 8. Former is not interested in studies & took Science despite their advice not to. She wants him to do Eco. Hons. & then IAS. I offered to help them out in English. He used to study while Mr. De could attend to him, but now he has no time at all. He has insomnia too & so gets up late on holidays (today at 11.30 a.m.). She is a very simple motherly lady without the least affectations. DM said Kanwar had been here yesterday but I was away & so could not meet him. He is being given hardly any work. DM told me how in floods he gave T.K.Das sacks of “chira” & told him to deliver this to the people even if he had to bodily carry them himself--& so he did! 21.2.1972 Work done Visiting 6 River Lifts Schemes with Agr. Commissioner (AC). Persons met S.K Banerjee IAS: Agriculture Commissioner. Information From 11 to 3.30 pm, SDO, ADM, BDOs of Old Malda & Habibpur & Engineers visited 6 River Lift Schemes of Irrigation. We first saw Lakshmipur, then Char Lakshmi- pur, then 1 mile by boat to 4 other sites, which involved walking over 3 miles in a very hot and scorching sun. Very satisfactory crop yield. Before this, 9.30-10.30 the BDOs and AC had a meeting discussing problems of distributing Agri loans and needs for shallow tubewells to be linked to pumps. The DM left for Jalpaiguri for Election meeting. He and the ADM have given me enquiries to complete before Elections, on a land dispute and a claim for relief. It was decided that we leave at 9 am tomorrow, and return on 23 rd . We have planned to force SDO to take us up to Sara bridge over the Padma. We are taking SDO’s jeep and an ambulance. 8 of us. (4 probs., SDO, Kar, MVI tech., Sudhir Chakravorty). LPC without payslip from AG WB is not enough for me to draw my pay! 22-23.2.1972 Work done Trip to Rajshahi Town, via Sibganj & Nawabganj on 22 nd . 23 rd : From Rajshahi to Natore, Pabna, Sara Bridge, and back to Malda. Total of 484 km. covered; started 9.30 am, returned 8 pm. Persons met SDO Nawabganj Dr. Misbahul Haque : Chairman R & R Committee Nawabganj. D.C Rajshahi. Sardar Amjad Hossain-- MCA Rajshahi and numerous journalists and budding litterateurs of Rajshahi. Information Party consisting of SDO, Rahman, Sudhir Chakravorti, Kar, Banerjee (MVI tech.), myself & Sarkar, & 2 drivers [Ghanashyam & Satya Goswami] left in a jeep & an ambulance at 9.30 a.m. after I had a heavy breakfast at SDO’s house. Our ambulance’s accelerator rod broke at a sharp dip in the Sibganj road, & after stopping at Kanshat school, where the SDO talked to the evacuees, we reached Sibganj town, accelerating by hand! There the rod was welded by a smith & we proceeded smoothly to Harinagar where we stopped & had refreshments, took pictures of the devastation. Earlier, we had stopped to snap the Chhota Sona Masjid, where graves of 2 army martyrs of Bangladesh [Capt. Jahangir & another] had been newly made. We reached Nawabganj around 3 pm and had a sumptuous lunch in Bhuto Babu’s house: fish, meat, dal, curry, sweets. Then we proceeded to meet Misbahul Haque, MCA & thence to
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