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could state we could not consider these owing to severe limitation of time. The salary upper<br />

limit will have to be raised to Rs.4000/- p.a. from Rs.3000/- (lower limit is Rs.500/-).<br />

Otherwise many will not be eligible. Made notes of particularly needy & badly damaged<br />

cases.<br />

In afternoon, at 5 p.m. left for Cal with M.S.Bhattacharyya & G.C.Chakraborty. MSB was<br />

taking a Civil Rule on Estate Acquisition along with him. I went to get books for Collectorate<br />

within Rs.100/- (since NDC has surrendered Rs. 200/- I found!).<br />

Before this, selected door & window screens, bed covers & sheets for DB.<br />

DM is leaving in April first week and wants to brief us before he leaves.<br />

24.3.1972<br />

Reached Cal at 1 a.m. Bought books available in our syllabus, most of them being out of<br />

print. Hence had to purchase private publications.<br />

Also called on Mansure Habibullah, CPM defeated candidate (by 59,000 votes) and Govt.<br />

appointed lawyer, for the case with MSB. He asked us to see him on Sunday when he would<br />

have everything ready.<br />

Saturday, 25.3.1972<br />

Purchased law books on Land Reforms & Estate Acquisition. Got my Provisional LPC. No.<br />

other IAS probationer inW.B. has got it.<br />

Sunday, 26.3.1972<br />

Got lawyer’s advice on the suit.<br />

27.3.1972<br />

Work done<br />

Return to <strong>Malda</strong><br />

Establishment section training<br />

Information<br />

Left Cal at 5 a.m. and reached <strong>Malda</strong> at 2 p.m.; a total of 818 Km.<br />

Attended Establishment Section and learnt how to draw up salary bills. Estt. deals with<br />

salary, TA/DA, leave etc. of staff. Head Clerk Dhiren Babu complained of it being a wholly<br />

thankless task, & involving abuse from every quarter! He draw up my salary bill as an<br />

example (most welcome!).<br />

The H.C. is Shri Dhiren Saha, joined Govt. service in 1941 & is in this post since June, 1970.<br />

At DM’s met Prof. S. Chakraborty, Head of English, <strong>Malda</strong> College, & the Dy. Controller of<br />

Exams of North Bengal University.<br />

28.3.1972<br />

Work done<br />

Establishment <strong>Training</strong>.<br />

Sent letters to AG (WB) about pay for 1-14 January.<br />

Wrote to Dy. Dir. PLI for pass book for my PLI Account.<br />

Information<br />

I entered all the new stuff bought into the Dak Bungalow stock register in the morning.<br />

Two new Sub-Dy. Coll. (prob) have arrived in DB:<br />

Paritosh Samajdar [Ex Estt. UDC, Writers for (1+1/2) years.<br />

Joyram Banerjee [Ex Sanskrit teacher, Berhampore]<br />

So now in <strong>Malda</strong> there is a record number of 7 probationers.<br />

In Estt. I looked up the ancient Chapman Report on functioning of Dist. Admn. &<br />

suggestions for improvement. At that time every Collector maintained staff was inadequate.<br />

<strong>Malda</strong> had 32. Now has 250 & same complaint! Estt. should have 12 clerks, but has 3 only.<br />

Consequently, guard files are in a mess and work is affected. There ought to be separate<br />

guard files for leave, pension, pay, TA etc. & specialist clerks for each. The O.S. has refused<br />

to forward the Estt. Head Clerk’s plea, so I personally took it to Sr.DC who fully agreed &

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