No circuit houses,only camps for top babus headed for Lalgarh

While Principal Secretary (agriculture) Sanjeeb Chopra and Special Secretary (finance) Bikram Sen will be stationed at Ramgarh,Principal Secretary (PHE) Saurav Das and Milk Commissioner Barun Roy will be camping at Lalgarh. And the two officers who will be stationed at Pirakata are Subrata Gupta,MD,WBIDC and Revenue Secretary C M Bachawat.

The two other secretaries who will be stationed at Kantapahari from July 3 are K Sathiavasan,principal secretary,PWD,and Ajit Bardhan,director,ESI. The senior bureaucrats will be there for six weeks after which they will be replaced by another group of officers. “After two weeks,we will make an assessment and if necessary,it will be carried further,” Home Secretary Ardhendu Sen said.

With the reports submitted by these officers,along with the reports of the DMs of Purulia,Bankura and West Midnapore,the districts affected by Maoist menace,a final package will be prepared by the chief minister for the total development of the area.

Sen is visiting Lalgarh towards the end of this week to make an assessment of the situation there. He said the police would not slap the Unlawful Activities (Prevention Act),1967 against Chhatradhar Mahato,leader of the People’s Committee against Police Atrocities.

“He is not a Maoist. So,we will book him only under the IPC. But so far as known Maoists like Kishanji or Bikash are concerned,we can book them under the 1967 Act,” Sen said.