Residents of Dhupguri celebrated on Saturday as Tamojit Chakraborty, the sub-divisional officer of Jalpaiguri Sadar, assumed office as the first SDO of Dhupguri.

Chakraborty, who is posted in Jalpaiguri, was given the additional charge of Dhupguri, a day after the state came up with a notification announcing the creation of the new sub-division.

“It is a matter of pride for me to join the post. We will continue to work for the development of Dhupguri subdivision,” said Chakraborty on Saturday.

Chakraborty on Saturday morning reached the BDO office campus and walked into an office of the backward classes’ welfare department.

As the news spread, members of Dhupguri Nagarik Mancha, a citizens’ forum that has been striving with the demand of the new subdivision, celebrated the day with abir and sweets.

They also hired a musical band group and took out a procession which reached the BDO office. The participants distributed sweets among bystanders too.

At the BDO office, they greeted Chakraborty and welcomed him.

Later, Mahua Gope, the Jalpaiguri district Trinamul president, also reached the office.

She also greeted the new SDO and thanked the state government.

“The chief minister has kept her promise. The creation of a new sub-division will largely help the people of Dhupguri and Banarhat blocks. It will also help in expediting development work. People here can get more services from the administration now,” said Gope.

After assuming office, the SDO held a meeting with the BDO, the inspector-in-charge of Dhupguri police station and the block medical officer of health.

“I will be in the office regularly. Necessary steps would be taken to create new infrastructure as more government offices will open at the newly created subdivision in due course,” Chakraborty said.

The state government came up with a notification on the jurisdiction of the administrative set-up of the new Dhupguri subdivision on Friday, following which the Trinamul top brass underscored how it met its promises to people.

Trinamul chief Mamata Banerjee, and her nephew, Abhishek Banerjee, the party’s MP and national general secretary, asserted “Kotha diye kotha rakhar naam ee holo Trinamul (Trinamul is a party that keeps its word)." Abhishek had promised the subdivision.