Bangladesh government to convert Sachin Karta’s ancestral home in Bangladesh into a cultural court

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, September 26, 2022

In a long-awaited initiative the Bangladesh government has decided to convert the ancestral home of maestro Sachin Karta (Debbarman) into a government run cultural court, having already reclaimed most of the encroached 15 acres of land in south Chartha village under Comilla district. It was in the palatial building of Tripura’s royal family that Kumar Sachin ‘Karta’ had been born in the year 1906 and had his education in Comilla Zilla school and later graduated from the government run Victoria College before achieving the status of a leading maestro in Hindi films in Mumbai. Sachin Karta had breathed his last way back in the year 1975.

Reports from across the border said that the Bangladesh government has sanctioned an amount of Rs 1.10 crores for the conversion project of making the old royal palace into a cultural hub or court. It was in the year 2017 that the Bangladesh government had listed the palace in south Chartha as heritage site for preservation though before that during her visit to Tripura in the year 2012 that prime minister Sheikh Hasina had declared in a programme at Tripura Central University that she would arrange for preservation of Sachin Karta’s ancestral home in south Chartha. In May 2017 Hasina had inaugurated as many as seven projects in Comilla including the proposed cultural court in south Chartha on the occasion of 116th birth anniversary of late poet Qazi Nazul Islam.

Golam Faruq , a leading lawyer, has edited a 596 page book on Sachin Debbarman , his family and life and musical career. According to this book Sachin Karta’s father Nabadweep Chandra Debbarman, a royal personage, had gone to Tripura to look after the royal ‘Chakla Roshanabad’ estate and Sachin was born there and initially trained in music by his Sitarist father . Tripura’s royal palace in Comilla was built on 7 acres of land but being abandoned for a long time most of the land and palace had been encroached . It was with great effort that Bangladesh government reclaimed almost the whole of the historical palace. The DC of Comilla Md Kamrul Hassan has informed that retrofitting work on the palace has been nearly completed and actual work on cultural court will begin after the palace and land are handed over to the archaeological department.