পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৬৬৫

633 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড a coherent pattern. There is a swift efficiency nowadays about at least the first stages of the process. Refugees are inoculated, vaccinated, cross examined for possible Pakistani agents, registered and given their dole and other cards within three days of arrival in India. The second step is to gel together the inmates of small and scattered camps and consolidate them in large shanty towns, each housing about 100,000 people, Jalpajguri's 54 original camps have already been reduced to 22 and the target is to regroup all the district's refugees in only 12 camps. Col. Luthra's argument for large establishment on high ground away from main roads is that they will reduce overheads and make medical care and distribution of supplies simpler. The snag is that there will be neither food nor medicines to hand out unless foreign aid is more substantial. Even more uncertain is the projected third phase of the process, which is the evacuation of the big consolidated camps now coming into being for return to East Bengal: by the present look of things Col. Luthra, who is still a comparatively young man, will have retired from the service before the refugees return.