The SJDA chairman also announced a rehabilitation package for displaced families of Chandmoni Tea Estate.

“There are disputes over some plots in Kawakhali because of a few unregistered landowners and claimants. The SJDA officials will organise a meeting with members of the Kawakhali Porajhar Bhumi Raksha Committee on June 11 here to discuss the issue,” said Bhattacharya.

The committee, on the other hand, said it would not budge from its earlier stand. “We have already said the SJDA will have to provide adequate compensation to all the land losers of Kawakhali,” said Yugalkishor Sarkar, the vice-president, after a meeting with the minister.

On Chandmoni, Bhattacharya said there were 200 permanent and 100 casual workers of the garden. “We have planned to resettle them by providing 2.5-3 cottahs to each family as well as constructing a house for each of them on SJDA land.”

The SJDA has kept aside 25 acres of its land behind the Uttorayon complex, which has come up on the estate land, to provide plots to the former garden workers. It has received Rs 9 crore under the Integrated Housing and Slum Development project which will be used for the construction of the houses for them.