Buddha’s team of bureaucrats to camp in Lalgarh from Tuesday

After six days,they will be replaced by another group of eight bureaucrats.

The chief minister has also set up a nine-member Task Force,headed by chief secretary Asok Mohan Chakrabarti,for the development of the three districts of West Midnapore,Bankura and Purulia. The committee met for the first time today and chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee presided over the meeting. The departments which had been included in the Task Force included the Backward Class Welfare,Animal Resources Development,Public Health Engineering,Agriculture,Development and Planning,PWD,Health,Agri-irrigation,and Paschimanchal Unnayan.

“While the district magistrates of the three districts have been asked to prepare packages for the area’s development and income generation among the people,the secretaries who are going there will also prepare reports and the two will be combined so that a detailed package can be prepared. The package will be finally placed before the chief minister who will finalise it,” RD Meena,principal secretary,BCW,who is the member secretary of the Task Force,said after the meeting.

At today’s meeting,the chief minister said that while the police would carry on with their duty of restoring law and order in the area,the state government would take up the task of removing poverty.

Arrested Maoists send to police remand
The two suspected CPI (Maoist) activists,who were arrested from a forest near Kargil More in Sarenga in Bankura district on Sunday while trying to plant a landmine,were remanded in police custody for two weeks on Monday.

At the ACJM court in Khatra,Assistant Public Prosecutor S A Rehman said the police arrested Gopinath Murmu (19) and Kanchan Murmu (19) and seized five kilograms of powerful explosive,a wire,switch,a foreign-made pistol and live cartridges from them.

Rehman also said that the CPI (Maoists) activists have disclosed important information to the police.