1950: Hindu refugees fleeing East Pakistan (now Bangladesh): The Secretary of the East Bengal Relief Committee, Shri Charu Chandra Roy and the secretary of the East Bengal Minority Welfare committee, Sja. (Mrs) Leela Roy , made the following points in the press on March 22, 1950: “The relief measures at Banpur and Joynagore are far short of needs. There is lack of food, water, light and proper sanitation. The refugees come on foot from Darhsan in East Bengal to Joynagar. An average of over five and had thousand refugees are pouring in by this route. At Joynagar without a platform, without a single shed over their heads, about 2500 to 3000 refugees were waiting from the early hours of the day to board the shuttle that would carry them to Banpur. Some of them had been enroute for days. On inquiry, I have met people who were in transit for no less than 5 days, suffered endless humiliation and indignity, have been deprived of their last bit of earthly possessions by innumerable hordes of extortionists. In Joynagar there is no latrine at all and at Banpur there is only one latrine. The Government within the last 20 days have not thought it necessary to have some latrines be made there. There is only one tube-well to provide drinking water. There is no lighting arrangement at all” (A.J. Kamra, The Prolonged Partition And Its Pogroms, Voice Of India, New Delhi, p, 132).
