STANDING COMMITEE REPORT ON GORKHALAND

PARLIAMENT OF INDIA
RAJYA SABHA
DEPARTMENT-RELATED PARLIAMENTARY
STANDING COMMITTEE ON HOME AFFAIRS
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINTH REPORT
ON
THE SIXTH SCHEDULE TO THE CONSTITUTION (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2007 AND THE CONSTITUTION (ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH
AMENDMENT) BILL, 2007
(PRESENTED TO RAJYA SABHA ON 28 FEBRUARY 2008)
(LAID ON THE TABLE OF LOK SABHA ON 28 FEBRUARY 2008)
RAJYA SABHA SECRETARIAT
NEW DELHI
FEBRUARY, 2008/ PHALGUNA, 1928 (SAKA)

Extracts of the Few Report under various clauses :
(vi) Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council areas should remain a part of the State of West Bengal duly governed by it and no Sixth Schedule status be granted to the area
so as to defuse the prevailing tension in the region.
(vii) Both the demands of Sixth Schedule and separate State of Gorkhaland would mean ultimate partition and disintegration of West Bengal. Both the demands
should be rejected.
(viii) Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council may be abolished and the Darjeeling District put directly under state administration, with Army protection.
(ix) Clause-VII Indo-Nepal Treaty of 1950 may be repealed to prevent foreign Nepali infiltration.
(x) All foreign Nepalese should be identified and pushed back to Nepal, as per the Foreigners Act, 1864 as is being done in the case of illegal Bangladeshi
migrants.
(xi) Border outposts be set up with barbed-wire fencing. Visa be introduced in the Indo-Nepal border as is the case with Bangladesh.