Tag: GTA

Mamata to tour Darjeeling for first time after stir

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is all set to visit the Hills after a gap of about eight months from 6 February. The last time the CM was here was in early June last year when she held a Cabinet meeting at the Darjeeling Raj Bhavan, just before the unrest in the Hills began and spiralled...

February 4, 2018

GNLF slams parties for ‘spreading lies’

The Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) on Thursday alleged that “opposition parties” were trying to spread “misinformation” on their demand for the Sixth Schedule status for the Hills and that a conspiracy was being hatched to counter the “popularity” of the party among the masses. “Like in the year 2007, there is misinformation being spread...

February 2, 2018

Thapa lauds Gov GTA praise

The vice-chairman of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) Board of Administrators, Anit Thapa, on Wednesday welcomed the statement of West Bengal governor Keshari Nath Tripathi on the GTA having brought about peace in the Hills. He also criticized Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) president Mann Ghisingh’s recent statement where he had asked the state government...

February 1, 2018

Sukna Gold Cup football from 29 Jan

Here is some great news for football lovers in north Bengal. The Sukna Games and Sports Association (SGSA) is all set to organise the 13th Sukna Gold Cup Football Tournament-2018 at the Sukna High School Ground near Siliguri from January 29 to February 18. The SGSA general secretary, Suren Pradhan, who announced this at a...

January 26, 2018

JAP slams govt for denying party function permission

Expressing concern over the denial of permission to mark the third foundation day of Jan Andolan Party ( JAP) in Kalimpong, party leader Harka Bahadur Chettri on Thursday alleged that the state government is not allowing the party to exercise its democratic rights. The JAP said it will celebrate its third foundation day on 27...

January 26, 2018

GTA, Darj admin jointly mark Netaji birth anniv

The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) and the District Information and Cultural Department marked the 122nd birth anniversary of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose here on Wednesday. The event at Chowrastha here marked the first time that the GTA and the district administration jointly marked the occasion, while it sent across indications that the two sides are...

January 25, 2018

400 Hill casual teachers made permanent

The chairman of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) Board of Administrators, Binoy Tamang, today handed over “approval letters” to 400 higher secondary school teachers, who had been appointed many years ago. As he handed over the letters at Lal Kothi, the GTA headquarters, Mr Tamang said around 744 teachers from the primary, para teachers, voluntary...

January 21, 2018

GTA projects to have ‘detail boards

In what the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) said will be an effort to maintain transparency in all development work undertaken by the GTA board, all the details of a project, including its cost, will be written in a board and put up at the project site after inauguration. Chairman of the GTA Board of Administrators...

January 19, 2018

Ex-GTA vice chairman held

The former Vice Chairman of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), Lopsang Lama, was arrested by the police from the Bengal- Bihar border at Khoribari near Siliguri. A police source said that Mr Lama was involved in various cases during the recent bout of agitation, while he was specifically wanted on in a case on 17...

January 19, 2018

Quixotic Mr Gurung~II

The allegation of historical exploitation of Darjeeling by the state of West Bengal does not hold water because Darjeeling has the country’s best social development indicators. According to the West Bengal Human Development Report, 2004 prepared under the supervision of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Darjeeling was ranked 2nd and 4th in terms of...

September 21, 2017

Mamata forms panel for restive hills, GJM rejects it

The West Bengal government today announced constitution of panel headed by a rebel GJM leader to oversee the administration of Darjeeling hills, in ferment over the demand for Gorkhaland, an action rejected as “mockery” of people’s aspirations by the party spearheading the agitation. Seeking to strike a body blow to Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, which is...

September 21, 2017

Quixotic Mr Gurung~I

The winds of change are sweeping across the Darjeeling hills. History seems to have come full circle for Bimal Gurung who appears to be completely out of his depth with the ground realities and popular mood in his bailiwick. The split in the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) and the resonant voices of dissent are...

September 20, 2017