Gorkha Chamber of Commerce Urges All Political Parties to Strive for Including Darjeeling-Terai-Dooars into North East Council
The Gorkha Chamber of Commerce has urged all the political parties in the region to work together to include the Darjeeling, Terai and Dooars region into the North-East council.
Speaking to the press GCC President Mr. Andrew Gurung said, "the inclusion into NE Council will allow numerous benefits to trickle down to the common people in our region... there are special schemes, scholarships, reservations for students... numerous Central government sponsored programs and schemes for the infrastructural and socio-economic development which can be tapped into, direct transfer of funds to the region from the Center... and so many other facilities that can help to change and uplift this entire region."
He further said that, there is immense agro-business, horticulture and dairy potential in our region, but due to the lack of proper initiatives we are severely lacking behind. Inclusion of our region into NE Council will help us change all of that and promote Darjeeling region as one of the leading agro-business regions in India.
TheDC team fully supports and endorses this demand, and we urge our politicians and social orgainzations to work towards the inclusion of Darjeeling, Terai and Dooars into NE Council, as that will mean that we will be freed of Calcutta-centric development initiatives, and will be able to focus more on what is relevant to us, our land and our people.
Inclusion of Darjeeling and Dooars completes the North-East Map... let us all strive towards this goal.
Source: The Darjeeling Chronicle's
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Speaking to the press GCC President Mr. Andrew Gurung said, "the inclusion into NE Council will allow numerous benefits to trickle down to the common people in our region... there are special schemes, scholarships, reservations for students... numerous Central government sponsored programs and schemes for the infrastructural and socio-economic development which can be tapped into, direct transfer of funds to the region from the Center... and so many other facilities that can help to change and uplift this entire region."
He further said that, there is immense agro-business, horticulture and dairy potential in our region, but due to the lack of proper initiatives we are severely lacking behind. Inclusion of our region into NE Council will help us change all of that and promote Darjeeling region as one of the leading agro-business regions in India.
TheDC team fully supports and endorses this demand, and we urge our politicians and social orgainzations to work towards the inclusion of Darjeeling, Terai and Dooars into NE Council, as that will mean that we will be freed of Calcutta-centric development initiatives, and will be able to focus more on what is relevant to us, our land and our people.
Inclusion of Darjeeling and Dooars completes the North-East Map... let us all strive towards this goal.
Source: The Darjeeling Chronicle's
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