Skip to content Skip to navigation

Centre’s NO to ST status

By AT News |

The centre has rejected the demands for ST status to six ethnic tribes forcing many organizations to hit the streets.

Ministry for tribal affairs sources told Assam Times in New Delhi that after a thorough study the authorities have  rejected the demands ST status for tea garden workers, Ahoms, Koch Rajbanshi, Chutias and Muttocks citing lack of laid down norms.

The decision is set to run into a hail of protest in Delhi and Dispur. The demand was long standing and both Delhi and Dispur have been assuring these ethnic tribes of their due status for the last ten years.

Both Congress and BJP promised S status for the 6 ethnic tribes for overall uplift.

Comments

Dipankar Das's picture

Submitted by Dipankar Das on Tue, 24/03/2015 - 09:57
This exposes the governments scandalous motives and false poll promises. This also goes against the spirits of the Pro Talks faction of ULFA , whom the government had promised the STfication of the state .Successive governments have done this and the present has proved that they are no better than the previous.

Pages

Add new comment

Random Stories

Major blast averted in Rangiya; culprit caught red handed

18 Nov 2008 - 2:51pm | editor
The people of Rangiya has foiled the bid of a major blast when they caught red handed two bike lifters on Monday. The lifters confessed before the people that they did it to strike a blast. According...

Mysterious blast in Lahwal; 1 killed 11 injured

8 Feb 2008 - 10:20am | editor
One died and eleven others have been left injured at an accidental blast at an aluminum factory in Lahwal in Dibrugarh district. According to information, the blast took place at around 12-15 but the...

Bordoloi likely to join BJP!

11 Mar 2014 - 12:54pm | AT News
Congress leader Bolin Bordoloi is likely to join BJP in a day or two. If he joins, the party is likely to consider ticket for him in Koliabor.Sources told Assam Times that Bordoloi is in touch with...

Victim's family given away ex-gratia

6 Aug 2016 - 7:22pm | AT Kokrajhar Bureau
Altogether 14 victim's kin family members, we lost their dear one on Friday indiscriminately firing at Balajan Tinali bazar were given away five lakhs each ex-gratia from Assam state government on...

Other Contents by Author

Bomb explosion in Guwahati: 12 injured

In yet another mysterious  explosion that ripped apart Guwahati on Tuesday 12 people sustained injury putting the security forces in a state of utter confusion and cluelessness. The explosion took place at around 7.39 in the evening near the state zoo where two SSB soldiers were among the injured who have been undergoing treatment at the GMCH. Hardly an hour after the explosion ULFA-I chief Paresh Baruah claimed to have exploded it which  the security forces are not reading with entirety. Security forces have cordoned off the area and launched a massive manhunt to nab the culprits. But they are believed to have escaped. The explosion in the busy area just near the...

Kaziranga to remain closed for tourists from May 16

Kaziranga National Park will be closed for tourists from May 16. A notice issued by Divisional Forest Officer Rohini Ballav Saikia on Friday said "Kaziranga National Park will remain close for visitors from 16th May, 2019 untill further orders".

Fani touches down NE with rains and storm

Guwahati: Fani, neither the name of a lady nor a snake struck Odisha leaving a trail of devastation in the form of a storm and rains before it entered the north eastern region with relentless rains. Originated in the Bay of Bengal at the coastal areas of Puri, it swept across Bangladesh leaving mile impact in the north east where incessant rains continue to wreak havoc in many parts of the region. Guwahati, the capital city of Assam remained in a zone of darkness amid heavy downpour that disrupted electricity and Telecom network where the denizens are being trapped on Saturday. Many roads and lands have been submerged by rainwaters forcing the people to remain confined to their...

Assam pilgrims trapped in Odisha calamity

PURI: As many as 250 pilgrims from Assam are said to have been remaining stranded in Odisha since the coastal state are hit by the ravaging Feni. According to official information received from Bhubneswar, most of the people were on a visit to Puri, the most visited Jagannath temple who are waiting to leave the state back. “We came to the temple town 7 days back. Then the weather was very nice. Now we are worried. But the local authorities are helping. We are waiting to leave,” said Ashmita Deka from Guwahati over phone. Jairaj Panda, a local resident in Puri said they have shifted to a safer place along with dozens of pilgrims they kept with them. “We kept the pilgrims much to their...

CJI to hear detention camp cases

The Supreme Court has made it plain that Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi will hear the foreigners detention centres case. Dismissing a plea moved by lawyer Harsh Mander seeking recusal of CJI Gogoi on Thursday, a division bench of the top court comprising CJI Ranjan Gogoi Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna said that the institution won’t be allowed to damage. The court appointed Prashant Bhushan as amicus curiae in the case and asked Legal Service Authority to go on would come up on May 9. It further decided to look into the issues of living conditions and the long periods for which foreigners are detained in the centres. Mander, the social activist moved the petition saying...

Supreme Court remarks on illegal detention fly in face of India’s constitutional and international obligations: CHRI

New Delhi: The Supreme Court needs to reaffirm India’s constitutional and international obligations to rights on complex issues of nationality, detention and deportation and not be unmindful of its own commitment to these duties, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has urged. The following is the text of the statement, issued today, and signed by a group of eminent citizens including former Supreme Court Justice Madan Lokur, Wajahat Habibullah, CHRI’s Chair and former Chief Information Commissioner, Justice AP Shah, former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, and a number of senior former officials and civil society leaders: As concerned citizens, we look to the Supreme...

Wild jumbo pulled huge crowd in Guwahati road

Guwahati: A wild confused wild jumbo wreaked no less havoc among the Guwahati denizens on Tuesday evening forcing the authorities to resort to tranquilizer. The strayed animal which managed to enter into the city from the nearby hill areas was spotted in the busy GS Road forcing the people to flee. Police and para military forces and forest guards took resort to tranquilizer to drive out the animal at 7 in the afternoon much to the respite of the people who were left unharmed.

Sri Lankan expert to interact with Guwahati scribes

Guwahati: Chennai based exert on Sri Lankan affairs, N Sathiya Moorthy will interact with Guwahati scribes tomorrow (Monday, 29 April) at 3 pm where he is expected to highlight the socio-political background of the island nation and also the implication of Colombo terror attacks for India as a whole. A former journalist and presently a senior fellow & Chennai chapter director of Observer Research Foundation (www.orfonline.org), Sathiya Moorthy will be available to members of Guwahati Press Club through video-conferencing. Sathiya Moorthy has developed expertise on Indian politics, elections, public affairs along with political affairs of Maldives and Sri Lanka. After writing...

Now Mahanta takes Amit Shah to SC

Guwahati: Even after alliance with BJP,  AGP founder president and former CM Prafulla Kumar Mahanta is targeting BJP president Amit Shah.  Mahanta,  the 2 time CM is preparing to take Amit Shah to the Supreme Court for his recent announcement that Citizenship (Amendment)  Bill would be enacted before completing NRC in the state.  Mahanta called it a case of contempt of court since NRC works are in progress at the instance of Supreme Court.   He would represent the family members of the Assam Agitation leaders who are least satisfied with Amit Shah's statement. 

Dire trouble for Tripura CM

New Delhi: In a major setback for Tripura BJP,  Niti Deb, the wife of chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb has moved a Delhi court with a divorce plea.  According to what she has alleged,  Deb has alleged that she was the victim of domestic violence. CNBC-TV18 reports suggested that Niti has moved the Tis Hazari court in Delhi and filed a divorce petition.