SILIGURI, April 13: The 24th Darjeeling district conference of the Students’ Federation of India was held at Chittaranjan High School in Bagdogra on 12 April.
Among the issues discussed were the situation in the Darjeeling hills and the development of education in the district.
Flagging off the conference, the SFI state secretary Mr Apurba Chatterjee expressed concern over the deteriorating situation in the Darjeeling hills and the strategy being followed by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leadership vis-à-vis its political opponents. “Even the student activists of the SFI are not being spared. We got information that the GJJM activists had tried to prevented around 50 of our activists from coming to Bagdogra to attend the conference. SFI activists were threatened with dire consequences if they turn up at the conference. However, committed as we are to hill plain fraternity, our organisation would under no circumstances fall into the GJJM trap,” he affirmed.
The SFI leader criticised the Centre for following the footsteps of NDA. and has reduced education to just a commodity. Mr Sudip Roy Chowdhury, the vice president of the Darjeeling district SFI said that his organisation had demanded improvement in education infrastructure and establishment of new colleges for the Siliguri sub-division.
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