GJM Decision to reopen Schools and Colleges from 13 September

Himalayan Beacon

DARJEELING : Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) President Bimal Gurung’s decision to reopen schools and colleges on the 13th of September but to keep everything else closed has caused an uproar among the populace. A student of Darjeeling Government College who commutes to the college daily from Sonada said, “I can only attend my college after traveling on a bus daily. Without transportation I can very well give up my studies.” A Principal of a prominent schools said, “It will not be possible for us to recall our boarders because we will neither be able to provide transportation to them nor offer them food. 

Sushma, a housewife and a mother said, “First of all if the schools and colleges are to be reopened why not from tomorrow why 13th of September. Are they waiting for something to happen by then? Why no transportation? Why the continuation of the strike? It doesn't seem that the strike leads us anywhere because the number of strikes that we have had by now we should have achieved Gorkhaland many times over.”