News of Jalpaiguri 06/05/2010

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Rules written off? Jaigaon, May 5: Thirty-six students of Hasimara High School (Higher Secondary), who had failed in the Class XI annual exams, were promoted by the teacher-in-charge on the “request” of the local MLA today. A total of 111 students in the arts stream had appeared for the Class XI final exams, but only 75 of them managed to pass. “We did not promote the 36 students, as they could not meet the guidelines of the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education. However, after the results were published on May 3, they approached me and sought promotion to Class XII. I rejected their plea,” said Ashok Bhattacharjee, the teacher-in-charge of the school, located about 30km from here. Bhattacharjee said according to the council guidelines, it is mandatory for a student to score minimum 30 per cent marks in first and second languages and pass in other exams. “These students had failed in more than one subject, including the language papers,” he said. This morning, the students locked the entrance to the school and started a demonstration, demanding promotion. But Bhattacharjee and other teachers entered the school through the back door. As a number of anxious parents waited outside the gate, the Kalchini MLA, Wilson Champramari, reached the school. “He came to my room along with 15-20 students and asked me to promote them. I told him clearly that I did not have any intention to retain them in any class and I am simply following the council guidelines,” said Bhattacharjee. “The MLA then called up the deputy secretary of the council’s north Bengal regional office in Siliguri. I also had a talk with the deputy secretary who told me to settle the matter on our own. As the MLA persisted with the request, we decided to promote all the students to Class XII.” Mukta Narjinari, the deputy secretary, could not be contacted. Champramari said: “I went to the school and requested the teacher-in-charge to promote the students. We had a discussion and finally, he agreed to promote them.”

Stop-rally threat to Gurung  News From Telegraph OUR CORRESPONDENT A file picture of the Bhasha Committee’s protest in Siliguri Siliguri, May 5: The Bangla O Bangla Bhasha Banchao Committee today threatened to stop Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president Bimal Gurung from holding a public meeting on a school ground in Sukna on May 8. The anti-Gorkhaland forum has also threatened to call a general strike in Bengal on May 14, the day the political-level tripartite talks on Gorkhaland is supposed to be held. However, the Centre-appointed interlocutor for the talks, Vijay Madan, later said the meeting was likely to take place at May-end because of the Parliament session. The Morcha chief has been staying in Salbari near Sukna for the past six days, holding meetings in the Terai and also leading a campaign to consolidate a support base for his party and the statehood movement. “We have been repeatedly requesting the administration not to allow Bimal Gurung or the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha to hold any meeting or rally (in the plains) but the administration seems to be sleeping,” said Mukunda Majumdar, the Bhasha Committee president. “Our organisation does not support such activities by a person who has been grossly violating laws over the past two-three years.” Majumdar said they had launched a Darjeeling Chalo march a few months ago but were intercepted by police at Dagapur on the outskirts of Siliguri. “Now since Gurung is moving freely in the plains and campaigning in favour of Gorkhaland, we plan to intensify the anti-Gorkhaland campaign. We will resume our protest march on May 8.” Protesting the tripartite meeting on Gorkhaland, the Bhasha Committee president said: “It is unfair on the part of the central and state governments to hold talks only with the Morcha and prevent us from articulating our views. If the Centre still goes ahead with the plan (of holding tripartite talks), we will have no other option but to observe a general strike on May 14 in Bengal.” However, sources in the Union home ministry as well as the Bengal government said today that the state wanted all stakeholders in Darjeeling and the Dooars and Terai to participate in the next political-level talks to bring an end to the hill impasse. “The administration now not only wants the GNLF and the Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad, but also the ABGL, CPRM and the RSP, to be included in the talks,” a source said. Morcha leaders, however, are not ready to attach any importance to the plains outfit’s announcement of the protest march. “We are a democratic political party and have the right to hold a public meeting,” a central committee leader of the Morcha said. “It is the responsibility of the police and the administration to tackle those people (the Bhasha Committee).” Hunt for bears and butterflies News From Telegraph AVIJIT SINHA A kind of butterfly found in Senchal Wildlife Sanctuary; and (top) a cave inhabited by the Asiatic black bear in the same forest. Telegraph pictures Siliguri, May 5: The forest department has taken up projects to count and study the Asiatic black bear and to find out the status of different species of butterfly in Senchal Wildlife Sanctuary. “We are conducting a survey on the Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) in the sanctuary in association with the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature). When a similar exercise was carried out in 2002, the approximate number of bears in the sanctuary was 20,” said Sumita Ghatak, the divisional forest officer of wildlife I. “We are in the process of identifying the prospective areas where the animal can be found. Once that is completed, we will place cameras at different points in the forest to take pictures of the bear and will engage people to count the animal by direct sighting. The data thus collected will be collated to find out the number of bears in Senchal,” she said. The Asiatic black bear is an endangered species under Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. The foresters will also study the behavioural pattern of the bear. “It would take almost two years to complete the project as we need to get a clear idea of the kind of food the bears take and if sufficient quantity of it is available in the park. We will also track the corridor of the bear as the animal is known to move through Senchal and Kurseong to reach Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary down the hills and to Mungpoo and Darjeeling,” said Ghatak. The project features the study of the plants on the bear’s path as well. “We feel it is pertinent to know the condition of the vegetation on the corridors. If there are not enough plants, which act as cover for the animals, we can mitigate the problem. Further, our staff members are also holding awareness among the people living in the fringe villages on the need to protect the black bear,” said the officer. The forest department, along with some NGOs based in Calcutta and the hills, will hunt Senchal, located at 4,000 feet, for different species of butterfly also. “Senchal is a storehouse of innumerable species of butterfly and has attracted experts from India and overseas,” said Ghatak. “In the late seventies and early eighties, a number of rare species of butterfly enlisted in Schedule I were collected and taken away as awareness among people was low in those days.” “We have taken up the project to find out whether the butterflies are facing any problem because of deforestation and the exact number of species found in Senchal,” she said. “A study of the plants on which butterflies depend will be held. If needed, we will plant their saplings for the butterflies.”