Also the new stateВ will be short on foods and other essential supplies. As DGHC (Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council) has only tea gardens (and cinchona gardens), the sales tax (or VAT) revenues will be too small to sustain a state, tourism not withstanding. are demanding Siliguri and Dooars in Gorkhaland knowing very well that it is impossible to include unwilling brute majority population in its Gorkha set up. Even Darjeeling hills can be integrated into Sikkim.Д«ut the perplexing thing is why Gurung & Co. However a sixth schedule status should be good enough as a solution to this crisis. Sikkim is already a state for Gorkhas (if вЂGorkhaвЂ™ means people of Nepali origin, Lepchas, Bhutias etc who are now citizens of India). We haveВ the great Baichung Bhutia, Prasant TamungВ and so on. Gorkhas are a respected lot in this country. The question of the Gorkha identity crisis is also false. It will be at best 1100000 Gorkhas against 1600000 non- Gorkhas! Do Gorkhas want to be minority in Gorkhaland? What kind of democracy is it on the part of Gurung & Co? Add up their Map of Gorkhaland and population. Why a majority population of Bengalis and Adibasis (mostly Bengali or its dialect speaking) shall agree to come under a minority population.

The above analysis clearly shows that the demand of inclusion of Dooars and Siliguri in Gorkhaland is quiteВ unethical and nonsense. The great majority is the scheduled tribes and a large migrant population of Bengalis migrated from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). But the fact is that the Gorkhas constitute less than 30% of this population. The Dooars areas claimed by Gorkha Janamukti Morcha may be around 3500 sqkm and has an estimated population of 1000000. Although no figure is at hand for the number of Gorkhas in the Siliguri subdivision, the interpolation does not give more than 10% for Gorkhas. The picture is quite different when it comes to Siliguri subdivision with a population of another 800000, a overwhelming 80% are Bengalis apart from Marwaris, Biharis, Adibasis and other small linguistic groups. The bulk population of Gorkhas are however concentrated in three Darjeeling subdivisions of Kurseong, Kalimpong and Darjeeling where they constitute 700000 out of the 800000 population (last census). If whole of Darjeeling is taken into account then Gorkhas are just about the half line mark in total population of 160000 (2001 census). Gorkhaland movement organizers have issued a map of Gorkhaland, which includes, -apart from three hills subdivisions (Darjeeling, Kurseong and Kalimpong),- the Siliguri subdivision (that means whole of Darjeeling district if Naxalbari zone is included) Dooars areas of Madarihat, Malbazar, Nagrakata, Kalchini, Birpara, Banarhat, Chalsa, Bhaktinagar, Jaigaon, Kumargaon.

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