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Dhangar’s demand to include in ST does not affect tribals: BJP MLC
October 06, 2024 6:55 pm
Dhangar leader and BJP MLC Gopichand Padalkar who has been demanding the inclusion of Dhangars in OBC into the ST list, spoke to Vallabh Ozarkar and said that the demand does not affect the tribals.
Who are the Paharis and Paddaris, proposed for ST status in J&K?
August 01, 2023 10:16 am
The Constitution (Jammu and Kashmir) Scheduled Tribes Order (Amendment) Bill, 2023 is one of the four Bills relating to the Union Territory that were introduced in Lok Sabha on July 26.
SC refuses to entertain PIL seeking SIT probe into Manipur violence
July 31, 2023 1:38 pm
The Supreme Court refused to entertain a fresh PIL on the Manipur violence seeking among other things a SIT probe into alleged poppy cultivation and narco-terrorism.
Manipur government had neglected to act on Meitei inclusion in ST list, HC noted in April 19 order
May 05, 2023 11:12 am
A decision on the inclusion of the Meitei community in the Scheduled Tribe list will only be examined by the Union Tribal Affairs ministry after it receives the state government’s recommendation, the Manipur High Court had clarified.
Behind the violence in Manipur: Longstanding tensions between hill and valley people, the Meitei demand for ST status, and a recent HC order
August 01, 2023 10:18 am
The demand that the Meitei community be included in the list of the state’s Scheduled Tribes has recently received a boost from an order by the Manipur High Court. What is at the root of this issue?
Behind the Kudmis' agitation in Bengal and Jharkhand for Scheduled Tribe status
April 14, 2023 7:18 am
The Kudmis of the Chota Nagpur plateau were counted among Scheduled Tribes under the British, but were excluded from the list in independent India. Here is why their status was changed, and what they are demanding now.
Parliament passes Bill to give ST status to Betta-Karuba community in Karnataka
December 23, 2022 1:14 am
The community has only about 5,000 members living in the southern state, Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda said.
Sikkim CM Chamling seeks tribal status of 11 communities in Sikkim
May 04, 2018 10:34 am
He quoted from a report by a Committee headed by Prof A C Sinha of the North-East Hill University (NEHU) highlighting ethnographic and historical facts for grant of tribal status to these eleven communities of Sikkim.
Chakma, Hajong comminities cannot be givent ST status: Kiren Rijiju
April 28, 2017 12:50 pm
On the Assam-Arunachal boundary issues, Rijiju said that he had already written to the ministry concerned
Govt set to grant ST status to six Assam communities
June 26, 2014 2:08 am
Tribal population of the state will now go up to 40%.
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