Tamluk, May 6: People who have rented out their houses to money-mobilising companies in East Midnapore now want them to vacate, fearing demonstrations and damage of their property in the aftermath of the Saradha default.
Civil engineer Gautam Das, whose five-storey building in Tamluk housed four such companies, said he had been urging them to move out for the past few weeks.
“I had last year rented out my house to four companies —Unimass, Shilpayan, Dolphin and Silicon. Many people who have lost their money in the Saradha default have resorted to demonstrations and have ransacked offices. I am scared. If such protests happen at my building, property worth lakhs would be damaged. Such things are keeping me continuously tense,” said Das.
The engineer said Unimass and Shilpayan had already moved out last month following repeated requests. He said each of the companies paid him Rs 8,000 a month.
Das said the offices of Dolphin and Silicon were closed for the past week. “I don’t know what their intentions are.”
Nandan Bera, the owner of a two-storey house in Chandipur which he has rented out to ATM Group and Modern Life, echoed Das.
“The ATM group office was closed on Friday after agents and investors demonstrated outside my house. The company has not paid the rent for April. I can’t contact the officials as the cellphone numbers given to me are switched off. Modern Light is still open but I want the firm to vacate my house. The agreement with ATM expired in March this year and now I will not renew it. The deal with Modern Life is valid for another six months. I want the companies to go,” Bera said.
In Contai, trader Aurobindo Das has rented the first floor of his two-storey building to Sunmarg Suraha Microfinance. The office closed down in January this year.
“They did not pay me the rent for six months. After the Saradha default crisis, we called up the Sunmarg branch manager and told him that the company does not need to pay the rent due to us but that they should clear out of my house. They did so. Now, I am relieved,” said Aurobindo’s wife Pushpa.
But Rangalal Das, who owns a five-storey building at Chaitanyapur on the outskirts of Haldia town and has rented out the first two floors to Rose Valley and Rahul Group, is yet to heave a sigh of relief.
“The Rose Valley office is here for the past six years and the Rahul Group for two years. They are good tenants and have not defaulted on my rent so far. But, after an office of the ATM Group close to my house was ransacked on Friday, I am scared. I have contracts with both companies, which will expire only after three years. I am keeping a watch on the situation. But it’s better they leave as early as possible,” said Rangalal.
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।
