Buxa Tiger Reserve in the Alipurduar district of West Bengal has been reduced to resort thanks to latest tourism booster launched by the government of West Bengal.
Palash Biswas
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Buxa Tiger Reserve in the Alipurduar district of West Bengal has been reduced to resort thanks to latest tourism booster launched by the government of West Bengal.Bengali daily Ei Samay has published a detailed report that the PORTO Mantri plans to make no less than fifty four cottage right into the heart of the CORE TIGER PROJECT Area.
Mind you,it had been the logic of Marichjhanpi Genocide way back in January,1979 that the refugees captured the island situated in the Core Tiger Project of Sunder Bans.Of course,it was not a core area at all.
At the time,I was a filan year student in MA in Nainital and had been engaged in Chipko Movement.
My father,a refugee leader,Pulin Babu was very confused as refugees from all five big refugee camps in Madhya Pradesh and those resettled in Andhra,Orissa,MP (including Chattishgargh) and Maharashtra under Dandakaranya project had decided to return to Bengal and they chose to make Marichjhanpi their homeland.
My father believed that the refugee should stay where ever they have been settled.But he was very worried about the plight of Dandakaranya refugees.He discussed the problem with me.
I knew it was not a Tiger Project.But I knew well that the island is in between Sudhanyakhali and Gosaba,the entry point of the core area.I could not support the movement as I believed that no government should allow this adventure right into the Mangrove Forest area and it would opt for repression.
I told my father that I was not concerned with politics but I would not support this movement as an environment activist as well as a student of politics.it is bound to be a disaster which it turned out to be.Though my father had been very committed to refugee cause countrywide,he valued my opinoion and he decided NOT TO Support Marichjhanpi movement.For this decision,no refugee from North India and even form North East opted for exodus into the Mangrove forst.
Marichjhapi refugees denied justice.They were invited by the LEFT and the Left front government massacred them in January, 1979.Since no FIR lodged.No enquiry ordered and Bengal as well as Bengali iconic intelligetsia kept mum for almost 35 years.
The Mangrove forest is Sunder Bans have been gifted away to private parties.As the Andaman and Nicober Islands haveto be gifted away,it has been decided.
Thus,no wonder,the government of West Bengal follows suit!
News agencies already have reported that Foresters: Tiger habitat in Buxa Tiger Reserve has shrunk!
Amid concerns that tigers may have disappeared from West Bengal’s Buxa Tiger Reserve, foresters have claimed that the habitat of the big cat has shrunk to a small area on the foothills.”Tigers have not disappeared from Buxa. The habitat has moved to the foothills of Buxa which are close to Bhutan border. Tiger habitat is there on both sides of the border,” a top forest department official told PTI.(READ: Tiger population in North Eastern hill up )
He said human settlement along the forest and cattle- grazing have forced tigers to move away from their habitat, which once spread across Buxa forest in north Bengal.The last census, based on scat analysis and pug mark identification, indicated that there are three tigers in BTR, which borders the forests of Bhutan and Assam’s Manas Tiger Reserve.As no photographic evidence was found despite the presence of camera traps, many wildlife experts have raised doubts about the presence of big cats in Buxa.
When asked why no tigers been caught on camera so far, another forest official said the jungle is very dense which makes the animal tough to spot.State Wildlife Board member Biswajit Roychowdhury, who had participated in the last census, said they had found evidence of the presence of the big cats along Bhutan border but were not sure whether they were resident tigers.”We found evidence but it is tough to say whether those tigers whose pug marks and scat we found in Buxa are residents or transitory ones coming from Bhutan,” he said.
Buxa Tiger Reserve (B.T.R.) is situated in Alipurduar Sub-division of Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal. It comprises of the entire erstwhile Buxa Forest Division (702.44 km2), and a part of Cooch- Behar Forest Division (58.43 km2). The Reserve lies between latitudes 26o30′ and 26o55′ N and longitudes 89o20′ and 89o55′ E.
The Head quarter of Buxa Tiger Reserve is located at Alipurduar Town. The nearest Broad-gauge railway station (New Alipurduar) is located at the out skirts of the town. Alipurduar is linked by train to Delhi, Kolkata and Guwahati. The town is on the broad gauge line of the North -East Frontier Railway connecting Siliguri and Guwahati. The Reserve can be approached by road (30 Km.) from Cooch Behar. The nearest airport is at Bagdogra near Siliguri (175 Km. away). Bagdogra is connected to Delhi, Kolkata and Guwahati by air. From Siliguri, Alipurduar can be approached by train (broad-gauge) or by road. Alipurduar is 720 Km away from Kolkata by train. There are a number of direct trains from Kolkata and Delhi to Alipurduar.
I have been insisting that RSS is doing everything to cut off Kashmir,specifically Kashmir valley out of Indian Map! I have always been writing and speaking the story of partition in First Person version,the version of the a partition victim,the story of the continuous bloodshed,continuous holocaust and continuous refugee influx worldwide.The official history as well as the so called mainstream literature voice the third person description of the Greek Tragedy in India.It is the story of the rulers defending the interest of the class rule,caste hegemony of blatant racial apartheid.
We have to go back to history to understand the RSS agenda of making India Hindu within 2020 and making a Hindu Globe.The mechanism of fascism was behind the partition of Bengal,partition of Punjab,continuous persecution of Kashmir,AFSPA,Salawa Judum and this Bermuda triangle of privatization,liberalization and globalization,the phenomenon of the SIYAST MAJHAB HUKUMAT COMBINED sacred bloodthirsty Trishul!
Thanks Ms Mamata Banerjee to declassify the cabinet documents on Netaji between 1938-1947.These documents are very important to know Fazlul Haq whom no indian citizen does not know these days.
Didi,thanks and I never cared for political correction as well as spell check or aesthetics when I deal with social realism and history.I care for the truth and my methodology consists of scientific approach,objective impartial outlook and commitment to the masses,the humanity and nature.I am not dealing politics.
I have to leave Bangal very soon as I belong to a refugee resettlement colony,Basantipur in Uttarakhand and I landed in Bengal as a journalist associated with Indian Express.I have to retire on May ,1916 as i coplete almost twenty five years in Bengal.Neither I belong to Bengal intelligentsia nor I am subject of political equation.I never sought a meeting with you face to face even while you were leading Bengal Peasantry in a movement against forcible land acquisition and I always stood with Mahashweta Devi whom you call the JANANi,mother of the Mass Movement.I disassociated with her as she tagged herself with your politics.I have been criticising the politics and governance as my commitment is limited to humanity and nature beyond politics and borders. I have not to seek you favour for my sustenance in Bengal.better I leave Bengal.
The Netaji documents earlier you declasified proved my point that Netaji had never been a fascist and in fact he fought against fascism and he tried his best to sustain pluralism and diversity against the Fascist Manusmriti Hegemony.As the latest documents support and confirm my version of the partition story,and the continuous partition and affarairs realted to tribal geography countrwide and beyond,the degenerated plight of the refugges,the victims of continuous partion,may point of view on RSS agenda of exclusionof Kashmir and North East to make a Hindu Nation,the INDERICA of ethnic cleansing and genocide culture.Thanks Mamta Didi!
The first prime minister of Bengal,Fazlul Haq was the leader of Parja krishak Party of the Hindu Muslim Tribal peasantry united since the demise of Buddhist Bengal who had been fighting against East India Company and British Raj and this grand alliance of the majority agrarian communities,the real bahujan samaj continuously fought for workers the right to land and rights of the workers in a feudal production system captured by feudal lords, the Zamindars who aligned with British Raj and later converted themselves swadishi to national leaders.
It is the story of chuar, munda, bheel, santhal insurections,Sanyasi rebellion,Indigo revolt,freedom struggle in 1857 to Tebhaga and food movement turminated in Naxalismand Maoism!
Praja Krishak Party was formed to push for their demand of land reforms and it had been also the demand of Matua Movement led by Harichand and Guruchand Thakur which saw Jogendra nath Mandal to become the face of untouchable Bengal.
This story is very important to understand the incarnation of Dr BR Ambedkar as the chairman of the draft committee of Indian Constitution.
The supporters of Fazlul Haq and Harichand Guruchand Thakur and the untouchables of East Bengal empowered babasaheb to ensure constitutional safeguards for SC, ST, OBC, Minorities, Workers and Women!
I am waiting for the fine prints of those documents.
One document deals with the riots named Direct Action in Kolkata in 1946 which is believed to be decisive for
partition and population transfer in 1947 confirming Two Nations theory to sustain and revive Hindutva as well as Manusmriti rule with reservation quota eternal sanctity to the losing hell of Hindutva,the caste system,the permanent settlement of brutal,blatant racial apartheid to divide the workers and toiling masses,the agrarian communities in identity politics as we watch the LIVE Mahabharta,the caste war in a KURUKSHETRA renamed and relaunched as BIHAR!
Hitherto we had been blaming SUHARWARDI for Direct Action and RSS hitherto has made it a content full of blood and meat that Islam and Muslims were responsible for every riot and for the partition and we. the Indian people treat Muslims and Non Hindus as second class third class mankind like we demonise every other community other than the ruling castes rooted in Aryan PURITY!
These documents prove that Hindutva forces including Congress had a greater role in Direct action as we have already witnessed in bleeding punjab,Sikh Genocide,Gujarat Killings,Babri Mosque demolition and the latest in Mujaffarnagar.
One of the documents expose the details of the meeting held in Kolkata to finalize the strategy to stop Netaji to enter India and the ruling hegemony ensured that Netaji must not return to Kolkata.
I belong to the refugee,scattered worldwide,those wanted to return to their original home just because someone like comrade Jyoti Basu called them back home like the waves.Their returned and the the first LefT Front Government ,known better for land reforms and Dr,Ashok Mitra as the FM of that government massacred them in Marichjhapi.Since then MRICHJHANPI people denied justice.
Didi,you visited Marichjhanpi time and again and you promised justice.But you just forgot.You reopened every file of Genocide in Bengal except Marichjhanpi Genocide.Why?
Just send us to MARS as our friend,poet and late seniormost minister in tripura Anil Sarkar suggested that the refugees should be sent to some other planet if they are deprived of citizenship.
Way back in 2002 we were jointly addressing the Press in Agaratala Press club to protest the citizenship amendment bill,2003.
https://youtu.be/B9SiCcQGH1g Published on 26 May 2012 Mr. PALASH BISWAS DELIVERING SPEECH AT BAMCEF PROGRAM AT NAGPUR ON 17 & 18 SEPTEMBER 2003 Sub:- CITIZEN SHEEP AMENDMENT ACT 2003
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Mamata Banerjee declassifies files on Netaji and allied cabinet meetings held during 1938-47
On September 18, after 67 years, as many as 64 Netaji files with the Bengal government were made public in the Kolkata Police museum.
After declassifying the intelligence files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal state government declassified files on cabinet meetings that were held during the pre-independence era between 1938-47. “We have declassified state cabinet papers from 1938 to 1947 today. Total 401 cabinet files of the pre-independence era were declassified. The declassification of these files will throw light on the history of pre-independence era. The files will be available with the state library and public archive. I will hand over a copy of the CD containing digital data of Netaji files to the President of India, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha speaker,” said Banerjee while addressing reporters at Nabanna – state secretariat, before leaving for Delhi.
The Chief Minister will be leaving for Delhi today to attend Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-convened Chief Minister’s meet. Banerjee also highlighted that the digitisation of files is a step towards Digital India program. “Digitisation of files is one such step taken by us towards Digital India program. Digitisation of files after independence will be done in a phase wise manner in future. In this age of internet and social media, we believe in transparency. That is why we declassified files. People must know the truth. We hope the stand taken by our government regarding declassification of files will be adopted by other governments also,” she added.
On September 18, after 67 years, as many as 64 Netaji files with the Bengal government were made public in the Kolkata Police museum. While the hard copies of the Netaji files were placed inside the wooden and glass cabinets, ten desktops were installed inside the museum, where visitors can browse through the data of the files in digital format.
All 64 intelligence files, 55 with the then Special Branch of Calcutta Police and nine with the state’s IB, were thrown open for public from September 21. The 12,744-page dossier, however, opened up new avenues about Netaji’s interactions with people, his personal life and his dreams about freeing India from the British rule.
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Apart from climate change, the much-awaited meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama on Monday touched upon a host of other subjects, including terrorism.
Making a reference to his weekend visit to Silicon Valley, Modi said the two countries were bound by technology, enterprise and innovation, and described the economic partnership as a key driver of the relationship and said the two countries would continue to work towards a stronger bilateral framework of economic cooperation, including the Bilateral Investment Treaty and Totalisation Agreement
"There was a broad acknowledgement of the progress made in bilateral relations” since the meeting in January of the two leaders, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Vikas Swarup said of the one-hour discussion in the UN building after the US President’s address to the General Assembly.
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Apart from Obama, Modi also met French President Francois Hollande and British Prime Minister David Cameron.
