Minor killed in accident
Prabin Khaling, KalimNews, Gangtok, Nov 28: A minor girl succumbed to injuries after being hit by a pickup van at Tibet Road here this afternoon. Manmaya Biswakarma, a class two student of West Point School was hit by the speeding vehicle while the victim was coming back from school. She was rushed to STNM hospital in a critical state but couldn’t be saved. She breathed her last at around 5.30 pm, police said.
The police has registered a case of negligence driving against the driver Pradip Tamang under Sections 279-304 & 304 (A) of the Indian Penal Code and has been arrested.
Woman arrested for selling drugs
Prabin Khaling, KalimNews, Gangtok, Nov 28: Jorethang Police has arrested a 24-year old woman on charges of selling contraband substances. Acting on a tip off that Yashoda Pradhan of Mazigaon was selling drugs in the same area, women police nabbed here and later recovered 75 Spasmo Proxyvon Capsule and an empty file of Nitrosun-10 tablets along with forty rupees concealed in her undergarments. A case under Sikkim Anti Drugs Act 2006 has been registered against the accused and is under investigation.
गोर्खाल्याण्ड् आन्दोलनको नेत्रीत्व अब भागोपले गर्ने डी के वाइबा, कालिमन्युज, कालेबुंग, 28 नोभेम्बेर : भारतीय गोर्खा परीसंघ (भागोप) छुट्टै राज्य गोर्खाल्याण्डको आन्दोलनलाई अघि बडाउँन दलीय एकता जुटाउन सफल भएपछि सहमति जुटेका दलहरुको प्रतिनिधि लिएर राष्ट्रिय स्तरमा आन्दोलनलाई अघि बडाउँने तर्खरमा लागेको छ। सोहि बिषयमा आज यहाँको दिशा भवनमा सर्वद्लीय बैठक सम्पन्न भयो। उक्त बैठकमा क्रामाकपा, अभागोली, गोरानिमो अनि गोरामुमो(सी) का प्रतिनिधिहरुले भाग लिएका थिए।
गत केहिदिन अघि भागोपको पहलमा सर्वदलिय बैठक भएर छुट्टै राज्य गोर्खाल्याण्डको आन्दोलनलाई अघि बडाउँन गोर्खाल्य़ाण्ड टास्क फोर्स गठन गर्ने सहमति जुटेको थियो। सोहि बैठकको सहमति अनुरुप आज पुन:सर्वद्लिय बैठक बसेको थियो। आजको सर्वदलिय बैठकमा भाग लिएका दलहरुले गोर्खाल्याण्ड टास्क फोर्सको निम्ति पार्टीको प्रतिनिधिहरुको नाम पनि भागोपलाई सुम्पे। छुट्टै राज्य गोर्खाल्य़ाण्ड गठनको निम्ति भागोपले दलीय एकता जुटाए पछि अब यसैको निगरानीमा गठन भएको गोर्खाल्याण्ड टास्क फोर्सले राष्ट्रीय स्तरमा गोर्खाल्याण्डको मुद्दलाई अघि बडाउँने भएको छ।
आज बसेको बैठकमा पनि सबै दलहरुले सोहि निष्कर्ष निकाले पछि अब आगामी 8 दिसम्बरको दिन दिल्लीमा भागोपको बैठक बसेर यसबारे घोषणा गर्ने भएको छ। भागोपको गोर्खाल्याण्ड टास्क फोर्सले छुट्टै राज्य गोखाल्याण्डको आन्दोलनलाई तातै खाऊँ जलि मरौँ भन्ने तरिकाले नगरेर ढिलै होस तर छोरा नै होस भन्ने रणनीति अप्नाउने भएको छ। भागोपको केन्द्रिय समितिले आगामी 8 दिसम्बरको दिन दिल्लीबाट गोर्खाल्याण्ड टास्क फोर्सको औपचारिक घोषणा गर्नुको साथै व्हाई गोर्खाल्याण्ड ? पुस्तक पनि बिमोचन गर्ने भएको छ।
बिगतमा अन्य राजनैतिक दलहरुले पनि व्हाई गोर्खाल्याण्ड नामक पुस्तक प्रकासन गरे पनि ति पुस्तकहरुमा छुटिएको अनि गल्ती भएको कुराहरुलाई सुधारेर भागोपले उक्त पुस्तक तैयार पारेको भागोपका राष्ट्रिय कार्यकारी अध्यक्ष रेभरेण्ड् डा एनोस दास प्रधानले बताए। तिनले उक्त पुस्तक सबै राजनैतिक दलहरुलाई राष्ट्रिय स्तरमा बितरण गरेर गोर्खाल्य़ाण्डको औचित्यबारे अवगत गराउँने पनि जनाए।
भागोपको पहलमा गठन भएको गोर्खाल्याण्ड टास्क फोर्सले गोर्खाल्याण्डको आन्दोलनलाई एकै चोटि तीन स्तमा शुरु गर्ने भएको छ। अब हुने आन्दोलन क्षेत्रीय स्तरमा मात्र सिमित नरहेर दिल्लीमुखि गर्नको निम्ति बिशेष जोड दिइने छ। यसका साथै अबको आन्दोलन सडक, संसद सर्वत्र बौद्धिक स्तरमा हुने पनि डा प्रधानले बताए। क्षेत्रिय स्तरमा गर्नु पर्ने आन्दोलनहरुलाई गोर्खाल्याण्ड टास्क फोर्समा सामेल भएका दलहरुले गर्ने छन भने राष्ट्रिय स्तरमा भागोपले पहल गर्ने पनि तिनले बताउँदै भागोपको शाखाहरु भारतको 22 वटा राज्यहरुमा भएको कारण अबको गोर्खाल्याण्डको आन्दोलन पनि एकै चोटि 22 वटा राज्यहरुबाट नै थालिने पनि डा प्रधानले बताए।
आज गठन भएको गोर्खाल्याण्ड टास्क फोर्समा बिभिन्न दलहरुको प्रतिनिधिहरुको नाम पनि 8 दिसम्बरको दिननै सार्वजनिक गरिने पनि तिनले बताए। आजको बैठकमा क्रामाकपा बाट सचिव तारा मणी राई, गोर्खालीगका लक्षमण प्रधान, गोरानिमो प्रमुख दावा पाख्रीन अनि
गोरामुमो(सी)का कर्णल डी के प्रधान उपस्थित रहेका थिए भने भागोपका कार्यकारी अध्यक्ष रेभरेण्ड् एनोसदास प्रधान, गोर्खाल्याण्ड टास्क फोर्सका राष्ट्रिय अध्यक्ष आर मोक्तान आदिको उपस्थिति रहेको थियो।
NO GATA - Govt cites hill deal to reject tribal plea - No fresh proposals are being considered, says minister
TT, Siliguri, Nov. 28: The state government is not considering the tribal demand to extend the jurisdiction of the GTA over the entire Dooars and the Terai.
It has held up the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration bill to counter the Adivasi plea, saying that the GTA was a tripartite agreement reached with the Centre and the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha for an administrative set-up meant for the Darjeeling hills.
North Bengal development minister Gautam Deb today said the GTA bill had been passed and the administrative set-up would be formed soon and no new proposals were being considered. He also said a government committee was looking into the demand of the Morcha, which wanted the Gorkha-dominated areas of the Dooars and Terai to be made part of the GTA.
“We will stick to the decision to form the GTA which was taken in consensus with the Morcha and the Centre. We are not considering any fresh proposal like the GATA (the Gorkhaland Adivasi Territorial Administration) which has come from some quarters,” he said.
A section of Adivasis in the Dooars and Terai has been demanding the formation of the GATA, though no formal proposal had been sent to the government.
Led by dissident leaders of the Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad, which has considerable clout in the region, the tribals want the entire Dooars and the Terai to be brought under the GTA, in which case they want it renamed GATA (one of the options). They had even signed a deal with the Morcha, promising to agitate for the extension of the GTA powers over the entire Dooars and the Terai.
Deb’s assertion comes a day after the Morcha and the Adivasis shared the dais for the second time in a month and announced that they would take their demand to the Centre and to the chief minister.
Tribal leader John Barla refused to react to Deb’s statement. “We will meet the chief minister earlier next month,” he said.
Referring to the committee formed to look into the Morcha demand, Deb today said: “Regarding the inclusion of the Terai and Dooars, an expert committee under the chairmanship of former Justice Shyamal Sen has been formed and people across the region have deposed before it. The committee was also formed on consensus with the Morcha. As the chief minister has said, the state would act on the basis of recommendations made by the committee.”
The minister was talking to journalists at the PWD inspection bungalow.
Although Morcha president Bimal Gurung and the Parishad leaders led by John Barla had announced a joint movement on October 30, the state was silent for almost a month.
Barla and four other regional leaders had been showcaused, too, by the state leadership of the Parishad for daring to go with the Morcha.
While four of them were exonerated, the decision on Barla had been kept pending. But even then, the five rebel leaders stuck to their stand that the region would benefit if the hill arrangement’s jurisdiction were extended.
The state leaders of the Parishad today said another meeting would be held on December 17, the same date on which Barla’s fate would be decided. “We are vehemently against such a tie-up (with the Morcha) and have already made our submission before the territory committee (led by Justice Sen) on October 24. We had put on record our dissent about the inclusion of the Terai and the Dooars and have demanded separate autonomy for tribals under the Sixth Schedule,” said Birsa Tirkey, the state president of the Parishad.
A tribal leader from the region said the state committee’s decision to drop charges against the four rebels indicated its weakness. “The state committee is aware that if these leaders are expelled from the outfit, it would only obliterate Parishad from north Bengal.”
BSNL service disrupted for power dues
RAJEEV RAVIDAS, TT, Kalimpong, Nov. 28: The BSNL’s telecommunication and Internet services has been disrupted for almost 30 hours since yesterday after the power department cut off supply to the local office of the telecom major because of non payment of dues.
Telecom and Internet services became normal late this evening after power supply to the BSNL’s Kalimpong office was restored.
Telecom officials have assured the West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited that dues of around Rs 24 lakh including Rs 8 lakh as late payment surcharge, would be cleared in the next two days.
“We decided to restore the power supply after the BSNL officials assured us that the outstanding amount will be cleared by tomorrow or day after,” A. K. Sinha, the zonal manager of WBSEDCL, Siliguri zone, said.
The BSNL officials, however, could not say why the dues were not cleared and for how many months were they pending.
“We had written to the WBSEDCL officials requesting them to waive off the surcharge of Rs 8 lakh but we did not get any response from them” said S. Roy, the subdivisional officer of BSNL, Kalimpong.
According to Sinha BSNL’s request will be forwarded to the higher authorities of the power department. “My office does not have the authority to take decision on the waiver of surcharge,” he said.
The BSNL has around 4,000 users in the Kalimpong subdivision who had to face a lot of inconveniences because of the disruption.
“The broadband disruption meant I had to close my cyber café for almost two days. Is the BSNL going to compensate for the loss of my business?” asked Yakub Tamang who operates an Internet parlour on Main Road here.
According to the broadband users, BSNL’s Internet connectivity is frequently disrupted in the area for one reason or the other.
“Snapping of optical fibre cables either because of theft or landslides is given as reason for the frequent disruption. That is still believable. But how can BSNL explain the disruption caused because of the negligence or callousness on the part of its officials. They should know that power supply would be cut off if the bills are not paid on time,” said N. Biswa, a BSNL broadband subscriber.
Mom’s kidney beats blood bar
RITH BASU, TT, Calcutta, Nov. 28: A 17-year-old boy who had to skip his Class X board exams because of an ailment has been able to return to school after receiving a kidney from his mother, who has a different blood group.
The surgery on Sugam Gurung, a resident of Namchi, Sikkim, was performed at a hospital here.
“It is welcome news for those who need kidney transplantation. Now relatives whose blood groups do not match the patient’s will also be able to donate a kidney to him or her,” said Krishnendu Mukherjee, a consultant vascular surgeon involved with renal transplant.
“Liver transplantation without blood groups matching has been going on for some time, but this is the first time a kidney transplantation has been performed between people of different blood groups in eastern India,” he added.
While Sugam’s blood group is O positive, that of his parents is A positive. A kidney donation from one of them was ruled out as the principles of blood transfusion are usually applied to organ transplantation as well. As the boy is an only child, he was left with no donors in his immediate family.
“The difficulty was overcome by performing a procedure called plasmapheresas, through which the O group antigens were removed from Sugam’s blood before the transplantation,” said V.V. Lakshminarayanan, the nephrologist who conducted the surgery at Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals.
The boy’s mother, Rupa Mani, a schoolteacher, said: “Our money was running out and the search for unrelated donors was proving futile. We were about to return to Sikkim when we met Dr Lakshminarayanan and he explained what he wanted to do. The success rate of the procedure he suggested was about 75 per cent instead of 90 per cent when the blood groups match but we readily decided to go for it,” she said.
Sugam’s troubles had started in May 2010 after he became unconscious in school. The kidney problem was not diagnosed in his village and later a hospital in Siliguri. He was initially treated for neurological disorders.
He started undergoing dialysis in February this year.
“We had lost hope after his doctor said he would not make it without a transplant because we knew our blood groups didn’t match,” said Narsing Gurung, the boy’s father who is also a schoolteacher. Thanks to the procedure, the family can hope again.
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