The Gate built between 1902- 1903 on the occasion of the coronation of Maharaja Bijoy Chand and initially known as ‘Bijoy Toron’ was rechristined as Curzon Gate after George Nathaniel Curzon, the Viceroy of India visited the royal palace in 1904. According to a section of the local residents, it bears the mark of the Maharaja’s ‘absolute loyalty’ to the British Empire.
Jharna Roy was elected as pradhan of Bijur-1 Panchayat in 2018, which was reserved for women. Jharna still serves as a domestic help in her locality.
“Ten years back, a murder in a week or month was not so shocking, which we have managed to overcome. Now people can roam freely,” Shahnawaz claimed.
“The BJP peddles lies before elections. They promise rice, pulses, chakri, everything. After polls, they are nowhere to be seen. I want to know what happened to the party’s promise of depositing Rs 15 lakh in the bank accounts of every citizen (before the 2014 Lok Sabha polls).
The unprecedented lockdown incidentally has hit harvesting of Boro paddy as the farmers are not getting labourers to share the burden of bulk reaping nor can hire the giant harvesters as the machine operators are stranded in states like Punjab, Haryana.
The elderly men, according to their family members and police, were suffering from severe anxiety especially in the wake of adoption of the Citizenship Amendment Bill in both the Houses of Parliament, as their names and other particulars in the EPICs and the Aadhaar Cards were not matching perfectly.
District created 1.56 crore man-days under MGNREGA during 2018-19
