DARJEELING 5 July 2016 Gorkhaland Territorial Administration sabhasad Roshan Giri today said the state government has given a positive response to the demand for regularising teachers serving on voluntary basis in various high schools and higher secondary schools in the hills. Today, Giri and the three MLAs from the hills called on state education minister […]
Darjeeling – another heritage gone, GTA pulls down Sailabash
Darjeeling, May 31: Darjeeling’s rare connection with present-day Bangladesh and a part of the hill town’s rich history has been reduced to rubble. The GTA has pulled down Sailabash, the over-a-century-old summer retreat of the raja of Digapatia, to set up a modern hotel management institute and guesthouse in one of the last few available […]
GJM Bimal Gurung upset with leaders, might reshuffle organisation
Darjeeling, April 29: Bimal Gurung has expressed dissatisfaction with the functioning of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s municipal councillors and GTA Sabha members and said the organisation might be reshuffled from the grassroots level, said sources in the party. The Morcha president held a closed-door meeting with members of the party’s central committee and subdivisional committees […]
Regularize over 5,000 casual employees within a month – GTA to State govt.
Darjeeling, Feb. 2: The GTA decided to “bulldoze” its way through to regularize the services of over 5,000 casual employees at the hill body by setting a time-frame of one month for the state government to do so, failing which the autonomous institution itself will appoint them. “A resolution was passed today in the Sabha that […]
Bengal Invites GTA for Talks on Regularizing Over 5000 Casual Staff
Writes: Vivek Chhetri The Bengal government has invited the GTA for talks at Nabanna on January 29 to discuss the long-pending demand of the regularisation of jobs of over 5,000 causal employees at the hill body. “We received a communication yesterday saying the state government had called a meeting on January 29. The home secretary, […]
GTA to conduct 4 sessions like Assemblies and the Parliament
Writes Vivek Chhetri Darjeeling, Nov. 27: The GTA Sabha today decided to hold four sessions similar to those in Assemblies and the Parliament from next year and invite the governor and the chief minister to address any of the meetings. Bhupendra Pradhan, the chairman of the GTA Sabha, said the decision had been taken at […]
GTA to form development boards for all hill communities – Bimal Gurung
Writes Vivek Chhetri Darjeeling, Sept. 20: Bimal Gurung today tried to outdo Mamata Banerjee in her game by announcing development boards for all hill communities, but his speech betrayed his worry about the apparent public acceptance the chief minister has garnered in some parts of the hills. “Enough is enough,” said the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha […]
