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Residents eagerly waiting for Mamata to declare Kalimpong as a separate district

Residents eagerly waiting for Mamata to declare Kalimpong as a separate district

SNS, Kalimpong, 2 February 2017: The people of Kalimpong are eagerly waiting for the second week of February when state chief minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to visit Kalimpong in connection with formation of Kalimpong district.
The announcement for making Kalimpong a district was announced in December 2015, after which it is waiting to be converted into a full fledged one. Kalimpong district issue was raised by Dawa Pakhrin, former party president of GNLF after he floated a new party Gorkhaland Rajya Nirman Morcha Later in 2015 after Dr Harka Bahadur Chhetri resigned from GJM and under the banner of Kalimpong district demand committee, he advocated the demands on roads, but later the committee was turned into Jan Andolan Party a political party in Jan 2016.
Geographically the total area of Kalimpong is 1,056 square kilometer, which makes Kalimpong the largest sub-division, however, the total area of the district is 3149 square kilometer, which is about 34 per cent land of the whole district of Darjeeling.
The voters here are less in number as compared to other sub divisions of the area but the vast area which is attached with Bhutan, Dooars, Kurseong, Darjeeling and Sikkim makes it the main competitor of forming a district, informed Sudhan Pradhan resident of Gorubathan.
Pradhan said Kalimpong is an agricultural area, the state and central government need to emphasise more on this trait when it is finally converted into a district.
Meanwhile the district will help the villagers from the remote places of Kalimpong, who from their villages need to travel to Darjeeling for work. The chief minister may visit on 14 February tentatively, informed administration sources.
The sources added that the chief minister herself will inaugurate many developmental projects. The Kalimpong Sub Divisional hospital is being made ready to have a new MRI and few other departments.
The people haven demand that Kalimpong be a full fledged district.





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