(मनोज वोगटी)कालेबुङ, 25 अप्रेल।दुइचरणको छुट्टैराज्य केन्द्रित विफल आन्दोलनको मूलजरा आज डा. महेन्द्र पी. लामाले कोट्याए। तिनले जरा कोट्याउँदै जॉंदा मुद्दालाई सम्बोधन गर्ने दलहरूको इमान्दारिताहीनता नै आन्दोलन बिफतलाको मूल समस्या रहेको खुट्टियो। गोरामुमो अनि गोजमुमो दुवै दलसित मुद्दालाई सहीरुपले सही ठाउँमा र सही समयमा प्रस्तुत गर्ने ‘बुद्धि’ र ‘कौशलता’ थिएन। रोडम्यापहीन आन्दोलनको परिणति भनेको नै कुनै निकृष्ट ‘सम्झौता’ हुने विडम्बनाभन्दा परको राजनैतिक कार्यनीति स्थापित नगरेसम्म छुट्टैराज्य निर्माण गर्न नसक्ने कुरा डा. लामाले स्पष्ट राखे। इतिहासमा...
शिक्षक प्रमुखको लापारवाहीको कारण बेहाल अवस्थामा चम्पामाया प्रथमिक पाठशाला
पहाड़को प्रथमिक पाठशालाहरु एका एक बन्द हुनुमा सरकार पक्ष दोषी छ कि शिक्षक-शिक्षिकाहरुको लापारवाही? किन दार्जीलिङ पहाड़को शैक्षिक स्तर दिनोदिन खस्किन्दै गइरहेको छ? प्रथमिक शिक्षा बाल-बालिकाहरुको निम्ति महत्तवपूर्ण हुँदा-हुँदै पनि किन आजसम्म पहाड़को शिक्षा व्यवस्थामा सुधार आउन सकिरहेको छैन?
राजनीति गर्दिनँ भन्नु पनि अर्को राजनीति होः हर्कबहादुर छेत्री
मेरो अधिकारक्षेत्रभित्र पाँच बर्षको लागि जनताको हितको काम गर् भनेर मलाई भोट हालेको हो नि। मलाई थाहा छ यसले जनताको धेरै हित हुन्छ। यसले जनताको हितसँगै पार्टीको पनि हित हुन्छ, आन्दोलनलाई पनि सहयोग पुर्याउँछ भनेपछि एकदम निसंकोच भनेर अघि बढ्न सक्छु म। म त्यही काम गर्दैछु।
बघिनी फेरि पुरानै खोरमा
‘समयले मानिसलाई कहाँ कहाँ पुर्याउँछ,,,,,,’ कुनै समय रेडियो नेपालबाट बजिरहने यो चर्चित गीतले मान्छेको जीवनमा प्रणयसम्बन्धको आरोह अवरोहले पार्ने प्रभावलाई सुन्दर ढंगले व्याख्या गरेको छ। यो लोकप्रिय गीतको यही एक हरफ कुनै राजनीतिकर्मीको जीवनसँग गाँसेर हेर्दा के उत्तर पाइएला?
साहित्य अनि सर्जकलाई माया गर्ने घिसिङ
80 को दशकमा देशभरिका गोर्खाहरूलाई जातित्वको भावना उत्पन्न गराउने प्रथम नेता सुवास घिसिङको निधनले अहिले घड़ी सम्पूर्ण दार्जीलिङ पहाड़ नै स्तब्ध बनेको छ। गोर्खाहरूका हित अनि अस्तित्वका निम्ति छुट्टै राज्यको बहस लिएर सुवास धिसिङले त्यसताक पहाड़का प्रत्येक गाँऊहरूको भ्रमण गरेका थिए। 22 जुन 1936 सालमा मिरिकको मञ्जु चियाबगानमा जन्म लिएरका सुवास घिसिङले आफ्नो तर्क राख्न एकलै जनसभा गर्थे। घिसिङले सम्पूर्ण गोर्खाहरूलाई एकै शुत्रमा बाँध्न "गोर्खाल्याण्ड" शब्दको जन्म गरेका थिए।
निराश छन् विधायक डा. छेत्री
“बजट सत्रमा के कुराहरू उठान गर्नु पर्ने भन्नेबारे हामीले जीटीएबाट कहिले फिडब्याक पाएका छैनौं” डा छेत्रीले भने। डा हर्कबहादुर छेत्री मोर्चाका प्रवक्ता हुन् अनि कालेबुङका जनप्रतिनिधि। दुइवटा महत्वपूर्ण पदमा बसेका डा छेत्रीलाई अहिलेसम्म जीटीएको बैठकमा निम्ताइएको छैन, पार्टीको राजनैतिक लाइनबारे उनीसँग चर्चा र छलफल नगरिएको त झन कति भयो, उनैलाई हेक्का छैन।
27 Apr 2013
अलग राज्यको पक्षमा राष्ट्रीय सङ्गोष्टि महासङ्घको ‘मिसन 2014’
कालेबुङ, 25 अप्रेल।
देशमा अलग राज्यको निम्ति सङ्घर्षरत् विभिन्न दलका नेतृत्वहरूसित विचार विनिमय गर्न आज स्थानीय टाउनहलमा राष्ट्रिय सङ्गोष्टि सम्पन्न भयो। गोर्खाल्याण्ड टास्क फोर्स अनि नवराज्य निर्माण महासङ्घको संयुक्त आयोजनामा सम्पन्न कार्यक्रममा शिक्षाविद डा. महेन्द्र पी. लामा मुख्य अतिथिको रुपमा उपस्थित थिए भने नवराज्य निर्माण महासङ्घका अध्यक्ष आरके तोमर लगायत तेलङ्गना, विदर्भ, पुर्वाञ्चचल, भील प्रदेश, तिप्रा ल्याण्ड, अनि विदर्भका प्रतिनिधिहरूको कार्यक्रममा विशेष उपस्थिस्थि थियो। देशमा स-साना नयॉं राज्यको मागको निम्ति गठनार्थ नवराज्य निर्माण...
Ghisingh closer to hills
April 26: GNLF chief Subash Ghisingh today shifted his base from Jalpaiguri to Matigara, a few kilometres from where the GTA area begins, and gave enough hints that he would be actively involved in the hill politics again.
“We have run the DGHC for 18 long years but as I walked out, an ominous force emerged in the hills,” Ghisingh said, without naming the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha which is at the helm of the GTA.
“Those who are riding on horses and reigning in the hills must realise that they are not real rulers and at any point of time, they might...
Morcha stage destroyed
Alipurduar, April 26: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today alleged that a half-completed stage for a party meeting had been vandalised in Dalmore tea garden in the Dooars last night at a time the hill outfit was purportedly losing a lot of supporters to the Trinamul Congress in the area.
Morcha leader Pradeep Pradhan didn’t point fingers at anybody for the destruction of the stage and the party was yet to a lodge a police complaint. On the other hand, Trinamul alleged that Morcha members had damaged and burned its flags at Dalmore and the nearby Bandapani...
When Gere met Dalai Lama
Richard Gere on Friday recounted his first meeting with the Dalai Lama that drew him to Tibetan Buddhism.
The actor was speaking to a 1,000-strong crowd at Manan Kendra in Gangtok — the talk was titled Buddhism in the West and My Personal Experience.
Gere said he first met the Tibetan spiritual leader in Dharamshala. “I was told by the people at his (the Dalai Lama’s) office that I can spend a week’s time visiting the Tibetan camps and monasteries at Dharamshala before meeting the Dalai Lama. A week later, I got an opportunity to meet him,” he...
Same-sex stricture draws ire
Gangtok, April 26: Chief minister Pawan Chamling’s warning of “zero tolerance” of homosexual relationships in Sikkim on Wednesday has drawn criticism from human rights activists.
“We must not allow gay and lesbian culture in Sikkim. I have zero tolerance towards such an unnatural culture, even though some nations have accepted it. This will wipe out the world. Let us keep Sikkim pure,” he said.
He then directed panchayats that they “must pass resolutions in gram sabhas against homosexuals in Sikkim”.
Gangtok-based human rights activist Doma...
25 Apr 2013
Deb panel to oversee civic work - Six-member committee to take stock of state projects in municipal areas
Siliguri, April 24: North Bengal development minister Gautam Deb today formed a six-member committee to oversee the development works taken up by the state government in the Siliguri Municipal Corporation area.
“The civic body led by the Congress has failed to meet the aspirations of the people of Siliguri and carry out infrastructure development through execution of schemes planned by the state government,” he said here today.
“The state government however, cannot shirk its responsibilities and it is determined to implement the projects, ranging...
7000 teachers to join BEd
Siliguri, April 24: The state government will impart a two-year B.Ed course in distance education mode to around 7,000 in-service teachers who teach from classes V to VIII in north Bengal.
The 7,000 teachers will be accommodated in 35 B.Ed colleges affiliated to the North Bengal University and Gour Banga University. The initiative is part of a Bengal government project to train 29,515 upper primary school teachers without B.Ed across the state by March 31, 2015.
The Right to Education Act, 2009, stipulates that all upper primary teachers should...
ash cut, complain investors
April 24: Several investors in Durgapur today complained that Rose Valley, a funds collection company, was deducting a portion of the principal while giving out cheques to them.
Many depositors refused to accept the cheques because of this today.
Private company employee Nilav Mandal said he had deposited Rs 1 lakh in 2010 in a hotel scheme that had promised to double the amount in five years. “But I got back Rs 81,000 today. The company has deducted almost 20 per cent of the principal,” he said.
Branch manager Shiladitya Singh said: “We had...
Mob at door, Deb leaves escorted
Siliguri, April 24: Trinamul minister Gautam Deb had to be escorted out of his office in the north Bengal development department today as angry depositors and agents of allegedly fraud money collection companies demonstrated outside.
The minister is generally accompanied by a gunman, but today, two police vehicles escorted him out of the office, crowded by the protesters.
Around 300 agents and depositors of Annex Infrastructure India Limited, a Siliguri-based company, gathered in front of his office around 2.30pm. They shouted slogans and disrupted...
24 Apr 2013
आन्दोलनले जर्जर बनेको पहाडको अर्थतञ्त्र जाली कम्पनीहरुको लुटाइले दिनदिनै खोक्रो बन्दै गइरहेको छ
कालेबुङ, 23 अप्रेल। विभिन्न चिट फण्ड कम्पनीहरुले सामयिक रुपले लुट्दै आएको कालेबुङवासीहरुबाट यसपालि शारदा ग्रुप अफ कम्पनीजले लगभग अढाई करोड रुपियाँ ठगेको छ। लामो समयसम्म चर्केको अलग राज्यको आन्दोलनले जर्जर बनेको पहाडको अर्थतञ्त्र यस्ता जाली कम्पनीहरुको लुटाइले दिनदिनै खोक्रो बन्दै गइरहेको छ। इन्फोजब स्ल्युशन, युनिपे, सुभम हाउस होल्ड, डोकोमो आदि जस्ता फर्जी कम्पनीहरुले करोडौ रुपियाँ लुटिसकेको कालेबुङ अहिले शारदा ग्रुपको नयाँ शिकार भएको छ। राज्य सरकारसँगसमेत नजिक मानिएकोले पनि यो कम्पनीप्रति जनमानसको विश्वास जागेको थियो। जाली कम्पनीहरुले पैसा कुम्ल्याएर...
समाचार च्यानलमाथि भएको राजनैतिक हस्तक्षेपको विरोध गर्दै कालेबुङ कृषक कल्याण संगठनले बुझायो महकुमा अधिकारीलाई ज्ञ्यापन
कालेबुङ, 23 अप्रेल। स्थानीय समाचार च्यानल एचपीसीमाथि भएको कथित राजनैतिक हस्तक्षेपको विरोध गर्दै कालेबुङ कृषक कल्याण संगठनले आज महकुमा अधिकारीलाई ज्ञापन बुझाएर प्रशासनिक हस्तक्षेपको माग गरेको छ। संगठनका सचिव बिष्णु छेत्रीले आज महकुमा अधिकारीको अनुपस्थितिमा डेप्युटी मेजिष्ट्रेट प्रितम लिम्बूलाई ज्ञापन बुझाएका छन। राजनैतिक हस्तक्षेपको शिकार बनेर सो च्यानल बन्द भएको एक महीना पूरा भए पनि प्रशासनिक तवरमा च्यानलको पुनर्प्रसारणको निम्ति पहल नभएको छेत्रीले गुनासो गरेका छन। तिनले आज महकुमा अधिकारीलाई चढाएको ज्ञापन पत्रमा यो गुनासो जाहेर गर्दै स्थानीय प्रशासनले...
Kalpana blooms in Sikkim, so does Atal
The pink cymbidium, the most common and cherished species of orchid in Sikkim, with sprinkles of violet and yellow adorns the nursery of Sailesh Pradhan, one of the prominent cultivators in the state.
Pradhan represents the Way Side Gardens and Nurseries Private Limited, a nursery spread over five acres at 6th Mile on the outskirts Gangtok, that is known for orchid cultivation for the past 25 years or more.
“This orchid was named after Kalpana Chawla, the Indian American astronaut, by the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2003,” Pradhan...
Richard on Buddhism trail - Pretty Woman star to talk on personal experience of faith
Gangtok, April 23: Actor Richard Gere is in Sikkim on a five-day tour of Buddhist monasteries and to deliver a talk on the faith.
The star of Pretty Woman and Chicago has been the practitioner of the Gelgupa school of Tibetan Buddhism for over a decade.
Would he shoot in Sikkim?
His itinerary suggests that is unlikely (See chart).
The actor’s chopper landing in Gangtok yesterday was kept under wraps, sources said.
Gere is scheduled to attend several Buddhist programmes in Gangtok and a wedding before he leaves the state on April 27.
According...
Gurung peace gesture to Mamata
April 23: A Gorkha Janmukti Morcha delegation today met chief minister Mamata Banerjee at Writers’ Buildings in Calcutta to convey party chief Bimal Gurung’s “best wishes” to her.
“We came to meet her because she has not been feeling well. We conveyed our (the GTA) chief executive’s best wishes for her prompt recovery. He has also invited the chief minister to the Darjeeling hills,” Morcha general secretary Roshan Giri said after the meeting.
He was accompanied by party leaders Rohit Sharma and Harka Bahadur Chhetri.
The meeting in Calcutta...
Rose Valley releases cheques to investors
Durgapur, April 23: Rose Valley today started giving cheques to depositors after hundreds who had invested in several schemes made a beeline for the company’s Raniganj branch in the aftermath of the Saradha Group crisis.
Those investors whose policies are yet to mature got back the cheque mentioning the principal amount.
Yesterday, over 100 depositors from Raniganj town and neighbouring Jamuria had demonstrated inside the Rose Valley office, demanding their money back. The depositors had said they were worried about the money in the wake of the...
Saradha makes Barla wary of alliance Tribal leader rethinks on Trinamul
April 23: John Barla, the JMM leader keen to ally with the Trinamul Congress for the panchayat elections, has had second thoughts on moving forward with the tie-up given the repeated allegations against the ruling party’s closeness with the Saradha Group.
“We had been insisting on a tie-up with Trinamul for the rural polls. But the Saradha Group issue has made our leaders give second thoughts to the issue. Most of us want to distance ourselves from the party and take up this issue,” a senior leader in Barla’s JMM said.
The JMM’s problem is that...
