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Page 94 of 94 planning as well as need to locate production centre near markets. Much of Malda yarn goes to Benares and other spots, and a little inside WB. The reelers get Rs.8 per diem D.A. and yet were about to strike for more, led by Janardan Maitra, CPI supported. The Minister has promised to back up the Suptdt who refuses to pay more for less work. The govt are unable to make profit here either because buy raw materials at a just and more than market price. Also sell it similarly at no profit. Result: they are unable to cover even the depreciation cost of Rs.40,000/- At the meeting, the RLA EE Mr Chandra was rung up by DM and castigated. 50 acres of ripe paddy are about to be ruined because 3 RLA pumps are without operators and the EE is least concerned! Source of trouble was dispute between BDO and AE over site of pump. This was resolved by DAO, but EE seems blissfully ignorant about it. AE, PHE, having no stocks for tubewells, DM rang up Dy Secy Health, NK Saha and ensured that materials would be sent tomorrow for 300 tubewells. The PHE is rather timid, probably because was let down earlier by his superiors and so reluctant to handle fiscal matters involved in recovering tubewell pipes installed for evacuees. DM undertook to pay for this out of his Rs.3 lakh allotment. Officers will tour each block to check extent of drought, number of TR schemes begun. I am to check up on a reported starvation death in Ratua-II. All schemes given have been sanctioned as CM told over phone that we must not worry about money now. GR is increased to 1% of population. 17.5.1972 Work done Enquiry at Ratua-II; visits to Ratua-I and Old Malda [9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.; 109 km] for enquiry into drought condition. Information Accompanied by Mihir Banerjee [sub-deputy on probation] I completed the enquiry at Ratua. The complainants repeatedly stressed their deep respect for BDO and high opinion of his gentlemanly conduct and shock that he should have got “innocent youths” arrested “nefariously”! I brought back entire muster rolls of 24 and 29 Jan 1972 distribution to satisfy their demand. They alleged multiple LTIs by the same persons and that I should get this checked by experts. Details of my enquiry are to be found in my report. Around 2 pm I left for Ratua-I, reminded Sr.D.C. there to check up on drought condition. In Ratua-II Boro crop has been good over the 3000 acres, but nil sowing in 5000 Aus and 12000 Jute areas. Also no jute seeds in the market. The Rs.5000/- allotted to the block means 2 people per gram sabha get the loan! Cash allotment for tubewells has not yet been made known, so he is unable to place indents. I assured him that all his 13 TR schemes would be sanctioned. Verified from BDO Old Malda that the R-II cashier had not taken loan from here (his land is here). 18.5.1972 Work done Visited Sericulture farm at Piyasbari Called on district industrial officer Court work. Persons met P.Saha: Suptdt. Sericulture Farm P.K. Dutta: DIO Tushar K. Bhattacharya: UBI Field Officer (Agr) Information From 8-10.30 a.m. I was at the Piyasbari seed farm, 9 miles from town. Mr Raha was originally here for 12 years and did a lot of work discovering 300 year old manuscript on
Page 95 of 95 Gour. Then he was in Behrampore and now is back in Malda. He told me the genesis of silk in China 5000 years back and how it came here, and then the history of its troubles. Japan is taking over through mechanisation. We are now cross-breeding with Japanese worms. These breed twice a year but produce 4 times the silk that indigenous ones produce. Then I went round the breeding rooms (78-80 degrees F and 80% humidity), saw worms spinning cocoons, then how these are cut, larvae tested for disease. One worm was dissected to show the silk glands and the silk fibre (I brought it back) and a moth was crushed to paste for microscopic examination by me. Saw how moths breed, lay eggs. The farm is a lovely green expanse studded with 26 tanks. Cool even in day. In afternoon visited DIO’s office and took details of his work: Mango industry (pushing on despite defalcations in the cooperative), Bakeries, Carpentry, Tailoring, Handloom (gamcha, sari, pit looms chiefly)., Biri making, Bricks, Tiles, Shoes, village blacksmiths. Recently schemes for drug manufacture and diesel repairing park workshops have come. Under the WB State Aid to Industries Act: DIO can give loan Rs. 2000/- BDO 400/- DM 10,000/- Director 15,000/- Secy 25,000/- Govt 1 lakh Capital invested (plants and machinery) is not to exceed Rs.7.5 lakhs. Also recommends loans to UBI under Lead Bank scheme. 22 such recommended, but highly technical forms and their length holds up time. Needs to be simplified. I decided to write to Mr De about this and to meet DP Bagchi, Dev. Offr. UBI also. Copied records of a committal case. At residence of Mr Raha met UBI field officers TK Bhattacharya, whom I had been asked to meet by HB Naik, my batch-mate in W. Dinajpur. He confirmed cold relations between DM and Naik. Naik is staying in a dilapidated dak bungalow. He plans to visit Darjiling in June and has asked me to come. 19.5.1972 Work done Attended meeting of ADM and mango merchants. Attended court and took down summary of judgement. Information The meeting was between Eastern, North Frontier railways and mango merchants. The crop is down to 1 lakh 20,000 qtls, one fourth of last year, but they are demanding same number of wagons. This was scaled down. Railways promised to supply all that was needed without delay. The merchants were urged by ADM to shift the marketing and transhipment centre from Rajmahal to Malda. They agreed provided they get land for a market. They explained why last year they deserted railways for trucks—because the wagons were delayed and even a day’s delay can spoil the mangoes. The accused were given benefit of doubt and acquitted. The judgement is massive. The judge pointed out several lacunae in the prosecution case. Saturday 20.5.1972 Work done Visited reeling factory at Madhughat 10-1145 a.m., 18 miles Got figures on agricultural damage caused by drought so far here from DAO. Information Suptdt of Sericulture took me to Madhughat. Here I saw how the cocoons are soaked alternatively in tepid and hot water to loosen the gum, then in cold water, and then reeling starts. With the Japanese cocoons reeling is at top speed, but indigenous cocoons’ thread is
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