The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) today offered a 12-hour
"window" on June 23 to the schools in the Darjeeling hills to evacuate their students safely to Siliguri and Rangpo.
"The central committee of our party has decided to offer a 12-hour window, from 6 AM to 6 PM on June 23, to the schools in the hills to evacuate their students.
"The students will be allowed to go to Siliguri and Rangpo only in school buses. The indefinite shutdown will continue. Only the students will be allowed to leave safely," senior GJM leader Binay Tamang told reporters here.
He said barring school buses, no other vehicle would be allowed to leave the hills during the 12-hour "window".
An indefinite bandh was called in the hills by GJM on June 15.
Darjeeling is home to some of the oldest and renowned boarding schools in the country, but with the GJM-sponsored indefinite shutdown over the demand of a separate Gorkhaland entering its seventh day today, the school authorities were at their wits' end as regards how to send the students home once the summer vacation began.
"The central committee of our party has decided to offer a 12-hour window, from 6 AM to 6 PM on June 23, to the schools in the hills to evacuate their students.
"The students will be allowed to go to Siliguri and Rangpo only in school buses. The indefinite shutdown will continue. Only the students will be allowed to leave safely," senior GJM leader Binay Tamang told reporters here.
He said barring school buses, no other vehicle would be allowed to leave the hills during the 12-hour "window".
An indefinite bandh was called in the hills by GJM on June 15.
Darjeeling is home to some of the oldest and renowned boarding schools in the country, but with the GJM-sponsored indefinite shutdown over the demand of a separate Gorkhaland entering its seventh day today, the school authorities were at their wits' end as regards how to send the students home once the summer vacation began.
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