Siliguri Gets Homoeopathy Research Unit

A homoeopathy research unit under the Central Council for Research in Homeopathy (CCRH) is likely to be set up in the Phansidewa block near Siliguri.

The CCRH is an autonomous organisiation under the

department of AYUSH, ministry of health and family welfare, government of India.

“A research unit of homoeopathy of the CCRH will be set up on .33 acres of land owned by the Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority (SJDA) at Choto Poturam in Phansidewa block,” SJDA Chairman and north Bengal development minister Gautam Deb said after the SJDA board meeting today.

SJDA sources said the Clinical Research Unit for Homoeopathy had approached the SJDA for the land allotment.

“They had applied for the land around six months ago for the research unit, where the outpatient department will also be set up. It (land allotment) has been approved in the board meeting. The SJDA is going to issue an offer letter to the unit,” the sources said.

Meanwhile, Mr Deb said nine acres of land at Kawakhali would be returned to persons who were unwilling to part with their plots.

The SJDA had acquired 302 acres of land at Kawakhali and Porajhar on the outskirts of Siliguri for its township project during the erstwhile Left Front regime.

The notification to acquire the land was issued in 2004 and the acquisition process started in 2006.

“We have decided to return nine acres of land to the unwilling persons. But the legal tangle is involved with eight families,” he added.

To bring artisans under one roof, the ‘Banglar Hat’ under the department of micro, small & medium enterprises would be set be set up at SJDA land at Kawakhali, the minister said.

The Centre for Perishable Cargo at Bagdogra airport, which was opened earlier, would be functional soon,he further said.