AGARTALA, January 19 (TIWN): The former chief secretary says move afoot to set up silk printing unit in Tripura. Union textile secretary S K Panda says each Northeastern state will get a garment-apparel producing unit and they will be set up at the cost of Rs 20 crores each.

He also says a silk printing unit will be set up at the cost of Rs 3.4 crores so that Tripura's grey silk fabrics will not have to be send to Calcutta for processing.

Panda says he recently visited Dharmanagar, where he started his career as a SDO , to check on how much it has developed.

This, he said, was as per directives of PM Narendra Modi who wanted all senior administrators to visit the place where he or she started his career and submit a report on the progress or lack of it .

"This was the main purpose of my recent visit to Tripura," Panda said in a statement. 

He said law will take its own course over Bimal Chakraborty and denied any connection with the tainted administrator who now faces criminal charges over Multi crore MGNREGA corruption.

But was BDO Bimal Chakraborty not the translator of Panda's book in Bengali  ?

Former Chief Secretary S.K.Panda hired scamster BDO Bimal Chakraborty to translate his book 'one plus one = eleven" into Bengali.

While S.K.Panda was Chief Secretary of Tripura,  Govt issued an illegal Govt order on June 2, 2014 asking all Districts to purchase private books written by Chief Secretary Panda and CM Manik Sarkar by using (misusing) Central's RMSA funds  to benifit a private publisher Jnan Bichitra.

Panda's book was published by Jnan Bichitra publication, whose owner Debananda Dam is a close friend of CM's family and former Chief Secretary Panda.

How much profit Jnan Bichitra Publication made  or how much writer S.K.Panda received as a royalty, is still a mystery.

Corruption tainted order of asking schools to purchase Panda's books to benefit writer Panda and Jnan Bichitra Publication.