strikes/bandhs
GJMM to intensify stir against talks delay
The Statesman
DARJEELING, Nov. 30: The Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha will neither appeal to the state nor the Central government to expedite the second round of tripartite talks. They would rather intensify their agitation programme from the 7 December in protest against the delay.
“At the first tripartite meeting in September, it was decided that the next [...]
Gorkha camp to be set up in missionary institutes
The Statesman
DARJEELING/KURSEONG, Nov. 26: Following the reluctance of missionary-run educational institutions to directly participate in the ongoing Gorkhaland movement, the Gorkha Jana Vidhyarthi Morcha (GJVM) has decided to form its units in St Joseph’s College and Southfield College respectively.
Although the former participated in the ongoing students’ relay hunger strike for the successful outcome of the [...]
RTI: Tamang seeks fund account
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 [...]
Agitation deferred till Dec 5 - ‘On duty’ civic vehicle attacked, seized - Water and health workers suspend movement
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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 [...]
Protesters stop traffic - Tourists leave before blockade
The Telegraph
Darjeeling, Nov. 11: Picketers stopped traffic in town from 11am today in response to a chaka jam called by All Hill Transport Joint Action Committee to protest against the alleged government move to open a camp of the motor vehicles department in Siliguri.
However, most hill residents seem to have been prepared for the two-hour [...]
School students on fast for Gorkhaland - Kids talk of future-less hills
The Telegraph
Darjeeling, Nov. 11: Fourteen students of Rama Krishna Siksha Parishad (RKSP) today sat on a relay hunger strike at Chowrastha while 100 others from various schools gheraoed the ABGL office as part of the statehood movement under the leadership of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha.
The protesting schoolchildren said they believed that they had no future [...]
Hill talks: Students’ on hunger strike for positive outcome
Statesman News Service
DARJEELING, Nov. 11: Fourteen students began a relay hunger strike in Darjeeling today under the banner of Gorkha Jana Vidyarthi Morcha for a successful outcome of the second tripartite meeting on Gorkhaland.
The students, who are from the Rama Krishna Siksha Parishad in Darjeeling, would observe the 48-hour long hunger strike from where it [...]
Traffic snarl
Statesman News Service
DARJEELING, Nov. 11: A two-hour wheel-jam called by the All Transport Joint Action Committee to protest against the transfer of the motor-vehicles department to Siliguri, brought traffic to a standstill in the Hills today.
The ATJAC, a GJMM-affiliate stopped tax collection from vehicles as part of its tax non-payment drive which was taken up [...]
Exams to be deferred for GJM rally - Board selections spared
Morcha spares board selections
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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 [...]
Plains protest wheel jam
The Telegraph
Siliguri, Nov. 10: Vehicle owners and drivers’ associations in the plains have resented the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s movement to stall the opening of a “camp office” of the motor vehicles department here.
The vehicle owners in the plains had urged the district authorities to open a “camp office” here, as renewing licences or getting transport [...]
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