CM Suvendu Adhikari with Union forest minister Bhupender Yadav in Buxa, Friday
Adhikari also announced measures for tea workers, saying Rs 312 crore had been secured from the Centre on Thursday for their development.
“As announced by our honourable Prime Minister on Sept 17, we will talk less, work more,” Adhikari said. Referring to minister of state Bishal Lama, who was present at the event, Adhikari said Lama had been given responsibility for matters relating to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration. Alipurduar : CM Suvendu Adhikari on Friday announced development plans for Alipurduar, focusing on forests, tourism, tea workers and higher education, hours after the ceremonial release of Buxa’s first reintroduced tigress.
Adhikari said Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav had asked him to identify around 2,000 acres adjoining the Manas forests for development as a forest tourism destination. It won’t happen anymore.
We will bring three more tigers in the next two months,” Adhikari said at Alipurduar Parade Ground. The move would help tap the region’s tourism potential and attract visitors from across the world, he said. Yadav later said the previous regime had misused the region’s trees, timber and tourism potential. “We will not let it happen anymore and make both Buxa and Alipurduar world-class tourism destinations,” he said.
“Natural resources were looted during the past regime. Buxa was a tiger reserve only on paper. But we brought back the tiger here.