User:Vidyut.chakraborty

Nandigram fiasco in East Midnapore(purbo Medinipur) of West Bengal(Poschim Bango) left a scrimmage in the history of mass movement of Bengal.A plan was there toward the industrialization on the other bank of Haldi river facing the glamour of the Haldia Port Area.It is a only port at the proximity of     Bay of Bengal.The old Calcuta Port is a river port less navigable for heavy cargo shipment. Industrialization and Urbanization takes a quick go-through at ease in the port area and lessen the smuggling activity in the area.Traders of British(Serampore), Dutch(Chinsura), French(Chandan Nagar) and Portuguese(Bandel) and others crumbled at the-then navigable Hoogly river(called Bhagirathi/ Ganga)and made ports on the banks.Beyond Calcutta Port there was ancient Diamond Harbour.More ahead comes the junction of Bhagirathi and Haldi river near to the mouth of the sea(Mohana). Being near to the Mohana, salinity of water did not permit neither the land of Haldia nor the land of Nandigram arable through out the year. So the earlier government planned to plant a chemical hub and the vested interest of the coastal zone incited a propaganda against the industrialization and the then Chief Minister bowed to honour the wish of the general mass stating If the people do not want there shall be no industrial venture in Nandigram. Thereafter politics created the whirlwind of rattling and battling,the peasantry fell amidst the gun fire between the Police and the Extremist leftist rightist combination. Nandigram became a free zone without any governance except the thumb rule of the anti-Left Front organization. Down the ages,the Tiwaris(Brajomohan clan)the Nandas the Pandas and the Samanta Bera Jana Maity were the Hindu Populaion ruling over the Muslim Peasantry( mainly fishermen community).Due to lack of cultivation the herds therein were migrating ones settling in Calcutta,Bombay and other urban areas for living hood and thus created a very strong cultural heritage of citypents and rusticity. Nandigram's teenage housewife of primary education level even in 1940 had have the strong awareness of this heritage of drama, literature, social reform and advancements. Then this village of Tamralipto was unknown but elegant in style.Alas! Nandigram is now famous but Nandigram is now sick.