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Kurseong, 1 November
After a gap of around three months, again, the Gorkhaland Personnel, (GLP), have started rejoining their
respective jobs in the various department of the GTA.
Notably, a large number of personnel belonging to the voluntary cell of the GJMM party, the Gorkhaland Personnel had resigned en masse from their respective jobs in the GTA and had joined the GLP camp again to agitate for the Gorkhaland stir again in the first week of August.
But after the long stir between the GJMM party and the state government, when the GJMM party re-decided to run the GTA, again, almost all the GLP who had been withdrawn from their respective jobs, have now started to rejoin their duties again in different departments of the GTA.
Meanwhile, from Kurseong sub-divisional hospital, a total of 36 GLP had withdrawn from their jobs and on 3 August, all of them and other GLP from different regions of the Hills headed for their respective training camps after the GJMM chief Mr Bimal Gurung recalled Gorkhaland agitation. But, now, at the Kurseong Hospital too, the GLP personnel have started to rejoin duties given to them earlier.
It was learnt that in January this year a total of 37 GLP members had been recruited in various posts in the Kurseong Sub-divisional Hospital mainly as security personnel.
A supervisor, Mr Padam Rumba, supervisor of the GLP unit working in the hospital said that for the next five to six months these youths had also been getting monthly remuneration from the Hospital itself but later the salary started to be disbursed from the Engineering Department of Construction Board, Kurseong.
"They get a basic remuneration of around Rs 5,200 per month while the four supervisors of the GLP unit working in the hospital get around Rs 5,800. Presently, the GLP unit strength in the hospital is 36 after the demise of one GLP member," he said.
Mr Rumba also said that presently a few of the GLP members have returned to continue with their work at the hospital after a break of several months due to call of duty at their respective camps for the agitation and now it is expected that all of them will rejoin the hospital soon.
The Kurseong Sub-divisional Medical Officer (SDMO), Mrs Rumi Mondal, said: "When the agitation restarted again in August, the GLP units working in the hospital had been withdrawn and taken back to their camps. Recently, I received a letter from the GTA Health department Chief Mrs Asha Gurung regarding the rejoining of all the GLP unit members from November onwards. Mrs Mondal informed that at first we gave the salaries to the GLP unit members working in the hospital from the hospital fund and afterwards the Engineering department took the responsibility of paying them."
A GLP member working as a security personnel in the hospital said: “I had come back from the camp in early October itself after being released from the camp but now I have rejoined duty."
Notably, as soon as the GJMM party had been formed, the party chief Mr Bimal Gurung also formed a separate organisation within the parent body called the Gorkhaland Police. The Gorkhaland police when mired in controversy because of its name was later christened Gorkhaland Personnel by Mr Gurung as its voluntary cell.
The GLP, has since its inception has been trained well by various ex-army personnel in the art of warfare and volunteering during the party’s political meetings.
It had even once worked to curb the transportation or sale of liquors in
Darjeeling Hills which resulted in thousands of such liquor being confiscated by them.
Later when GTA was formed through a tripartite agreement involving the Centre, State and the GJMM party, several of these volunteers had been given jobs in the new set-up, mainly as security
personnel.(SNS)
After a gap of around three months, again, the Gorkhaland Personnel, (GLP), have started rejoining their
respective jobs in the various department of the GTA.
Notably, a large number of personnel belonging to the voluntary cell of the GJMM party, the Gorkhaland Personnel had resigned en masse from their respective jobs in the GTA and had joined the GLP camp again to agitate for the Gorkhaland stir again in the first week of August.
But after the long stir between the GJMM party and the state government, when the GJMM party re-decided to run the GTA, again, almost all the GLP who had been withdrawn from their respective jobs, have now started to rejoin their duties again in different departments of the GTA.
Meanwhile, from Kurseong sub-divisional hospital, a total of 36 GLP had withdrawn from their jobs and on 3 August, all of them and other GLP from different regions of the Hills headed for their respective training camps after the GJMM chief Mr Bimal Gurung recalled Gorkhaland agitation. But, now, at the Kurseong Hospital too, the GLP personnel have started to rejoin duties given to them earlier.
It was learnt that in January this year a total of 37 GLP members had been recruited in various posts in the Kurseong Sub-divisional Hospital mainly as security personnel.
A supervisor, Mr Padam Rumba, supervisor of the GLP unit working in the hospital said that for the next five to six months these youths had also been getting monthly remuneration from the Hospital itself but later the salary started to be disbursed from the Engineering Department of Construction Board, Kurseong.
"They get a basic remuneration of around Rs 5,200 per month while the four supervisors of the GLP unit working in the hospital get around Rs 5,800. Presently, the GLP unit strength in the hospital is 36 after the demise of one GLP member," he said.
Mr Rumba also said that presently a few of the GLP members have returned to continue with their work at the hospital after a break of several months due to call of duty at their respective camps for the agitation and now it is expected that all of them will rejoin the hospital soon.
The Kurseong Sub-divisional Medical Officer (SDMO), Mrs Rumi Mondal, said: "When the agitation restarted again in August, the GLP units working in the hospital had been withdrawn and taken back to their camps. Recently, I received a letter from the GTA Health department Chief Mrs Asha Gurung regarding the rejoining of all the GLP unit members from November onwards. Mrs Mondal informed that at first we gave the salaries to the GLP unit members working in the hospital from the hospital fund and afterwards the Engineering department took the responsibility of paying them."
A GLP member working as a security personnel in the hospital said: “I had come back from the camp in early October itself after being released from the camp but now I have rejoined duty."
Notably, as soon as the GJMM party had been formed, the party chief Mr Bimal Gurung also formed a separate organisation within the parent body called the Gorkhaland Police. The Gorkhaland police when mired in controversy because of its name was later christened Gorkhaland Personnel by Mr Gurung as its voluntary cell.
The GLP, has since its inception has been trained well by various ex-army personnel in the art of warfare and volunteering during the party’s political meetings.
It had even once worked to curb the transportation or sale of liquors in
Darjeeling Hills which resulted in thousands of such liquor being confiscated by them.
Later when GTA was formed through a tripartite agreement involving the Centre, State and the GJMM party, several of these volunteers had been given jobs in the new set-up, mainly as security
personnel.(SNS)
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