Indo-Bangla enclave residents at Mamata’s door
Cooch Behar, June10 (UNB) - A section of the residents of Indo-Bangladesh enclaves in Cooch Behar urged the chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee, to intervene to solve their long-standing problems like lack of pure drinking water, healthcare facilities, education and road communication.
Addressing the chief minister, they handed over a memorandum to Trinamul Congress MLA and party's Cooch Behar district president, Mr Rabindra Nath Ghosh, reports The Statesman.
In the memorandum the enclave residents stated that their problems remained unsolved even after signing of a few agreements, aimed at easing problems of the enclave residents, between the two neighbouring countries, like the Nehru-Noon agreement (1958) and Indira-Mujib agreement (1974).
The enclave residents said when the Tinbigha corridor was handed over to Bangladesh on 26 June, 1992, ignoring all protests by the people, the then chief minister Jyoti Basu had assured of ironing out all problems within two years. But nothing happened so far during the Left Front regime, they said.
In the changed political scenario, the enclave residents now want the new chief minister to intervene so that they can avail minimum humane facilities like drinking water, healthcare, education and road connectivity. Though they live in Indian enclaves none of them has any identity proof as Indian.
Mr Ghosh said a delegation of enclave residents met Miss Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on 22 July, 2009.
After that Miss Banerjee took up the matter with Union home minister Mr P Chidambaram. Since then the matter started rolling towards betterment.
Mr Ghosh hoped that the chief minister might consider the demands raised by the enclave residents in the memorandum. “I hope the chief minister will consider the problems of the residents of the enclaves,” he said.
Addressing the chief minister, they handed over a memorandum to Trinamul Congress MLA and party's Cooch Behar district president, Mr Rabindra Nath Ghosh, reports The Statesman.
In the memorandum the enclave residents stated that their problems remained unsolved even after signing of a few agreements, aimed at easing problems of the enclave residents, between the two neighbouring countries, like the Nehru-Noon agreement (1958) and Indira-Mujib agreement (1974).
The enclave residents said when the Tinbigha corridor was handed over to Bangladesh on 26 June, 1992, ignoring all protests by the people, the then chief minister Jyoti Basu had assured of ironing out all problems within two years. But nothing happened so far during the Left Front regime, they said.
In the changed political scenario, the enclave residents now want the new chief minister to intervene so that they can avail minimum humane facilities like drinking water, healthcare, education and road connectivity. Though they live in Indian enclaves none of them has any identity proof as Indian.
Mr Ghosh said a delegation of enclave residents met Miss Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on 22 July, 2009.
After that Miss Banerjee took up the matter with Union home minister Mr P Chidambaram. Since then the matter started rolling towards betterment.
Mr Ghosh hoped that the chief minister might consider the demands raised by the enclave residents in the memorandum. “I hope the chief minister will consider the problems of the residents of the enclaves,” he said.
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