The Statesman
Home secy holds meeting with GJMM
SILIGURI, Nov. 25: The State home secretary, Mr Ashok Mohan Chakrabarty called upon the GJMM leadership today to allow the district administration and the Darjeeling Hill Council to carry on with the developmental activities in the Darjeeling hills.
Mr Chakravarty held a review meeting on the law and order situation [...]
Statesman News Service
DARJEELING, Nov. 19: The AIGL president, Mr Madan Tamang said that he would take legal action against the DGHC administrator Mr BL Meena if he failed to give an account of the funds that have been allotted to and utilised for development from the DGHC exchequer.
It may be mentioned that Mr Tamang had [...]
www.telegraphindia.com
Darjeeling, Nov. 17: The Janmukti Asthai Karmahari Sangathan, a body of contractual workers with the DGHC, has decided to suspend its two agitation programmes till December 5.
The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha-affiliate had called for a strike among the public health engineering department (PHED) workers from today, to disrupt water supply in town. JAKS had also called [...]
Morcha spares board selections
www.telegraphindia.com
Darjeeling, Nov. 10: The annual examinations in hill schools will be deferred by at least a week to facilitate students’ participation in the movement for Gorkhaland being spearheaded by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha.
The student agitation, which includes relay hunger strikes from tomorrow, is likely to continue till the third week of November [...]
8 Nov 2008, 0340 hrs IST, Deep Gazmer, TNN
DARJEELING: Darjeeling has suffered enough during GJM’s Gorkhaland agitation, but the worst may be yet to come. On Friday, GJM chief Bimal Gurung announced a virtual shutdown of the Hills: schools to be closed and students made to participate in GJM’s agitation, ban on political parties, all [...]
Statesman News Service
DARJEELING, Nov. 7: The Hills Opposition would be deprived of the right to speak their minds from tommorrow according to a Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha fiat alleging that these parties misused the liberty by influencing the people against GJMM.
“The parties have taken advantage of our leniency and have been making serious allegations [...]
www.telegraphindia.com
Darjeeling, Nov. 7: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has called for an indefinite closure of all DGHC offices across the hills from tomorrow. The party will, however, allow the offices to remain open at the month end to facilitate the distribution of salaries among the council employees.
Announcing the movement, Morcha president Bimal Gurung said he had [...]
The Telegraph
Darjeeling, Nov. 6: Work came to a standstill in all DGHC offices across the hills on the first day of the Janmukti Astai Karmchari Sangtan (JAKS)’s pen-down strike, demanding that contractual employees be made permanent.
The DGHC has nearly 7,000 contractual workers on its rolls. The only permanent staff are the executive officers in the [...]
Recent Comments