Malda Training Diary - Administrative Training Institute

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6.4.1972
Work done
Attended Relief Office, signed all loan bonds of 29 th & 30 th . Took Relief Manual. Might have
to conduct an enquiry into allegations of misappropriation of HB grants & loans in Ratua-II
Block. Inspected & selected commodes for the D.B.
Luckily on 5 th no sessions court was held as lawyers were unprepared! Postponed to May.
M.N.Roy saw me today and claimed he had counted the bales of clothings wrongly & that
what we had found was the actual figure. We will wait till Nanda Sarkar comes back from
leave & then go into details of the matter.
Pressure of work is not allowing me to write my monthly letter to the Academy. Tough
finding time.
7.4.1972
Work done
Court work
Preparation for CM’s visit
Information
Attended Court of T.P.Deb & recorded evidence of a committal case. He is most helpful &
told us we could take all the case records from his Peshkar. He will try & get us all the cases
we need, once other magistrates join. Court S.I. just does not know how to have a witness
declared hostile & has not studied the evidence & would never cross examine beyond “You
have been bribed”! At present he is the only one! Separation was premature, he held, as the
WBJS simply does not have enough officers for the posts available. Consequently, as in the
past, only new dates of hearing are being given.
The Dist. Judge assured us there was no need to go to Balurghat to get Sessions cases, as we
had been planning. Once the Addl. S.J. joins, we would easily get all we wanted, he said.
After recording of case, I got DM’s message to proceed to CH with some probationers to
receive Barkat Ali, Min of Irrigation & Power at 3 pm. Till 6 pm he had not arrived, so with
DM’s permission I left.
At CH met Sri N.P.Bagchi, Dy. Secy. Irr. & ex-ADM Malda. He is not being transferred as
the Min. wishes to settle down before any changes are made in the set-up. Hence Mr. Halder
is not going as Dy. Secy. obviously. The SDO later explained that N.P.Bagchi had done a lot
of string pulling to continue in this post & that he was assiduously “sir-ing” the Minister
when he reached around 7 p.m.
DM put me in charge of getting vehicles for CM’s visit to Miahat on 10 th to inaugurate
Mahananda Embankment Project. CM is very eager to encourage rural elec- trification as
well & hence will visit Bhadoi village in Harischandrapur, He wants to inaugurate an
electrically powered shallow tubewell too, but we do not have even one such!
At the airstrip at 8.30 am we need enough cars for 35 people [press, security etc.]. Then to
Hchpur 10 jeeps must be sent on 9 th . On 10 th CM will entrain at Samsi & be back here.
Vehicles needed to take them to airstrip again.
It’s rather curious how I am meeting the man who was my father’s counsel in his appeal to
Pakistan Supreme Court. And again, on 4/4/61 my father was captured in E.Pak & on 4/4/72,
I was a welcome guest there! How times change!
Had a nice time at night teaching DM’s son “Passing of Arthur”. Extremely receptive to
imagery and radiations of meaning though a science student.
I heard that the DM has written to the Govt. that R.Kar & M.S.Bhattacharya are brilliant
officers. This was told me by MSB in strict confidence (the DM had told him this). MSB’s
giving over charge is postponed as Burdwan sadar SDO has written he cannot leave before
end of April & has fixed 5/5/72 as the date of joining over charge.
8.4.1972