A Correspondent
Haflong: With the plea for the campus of Indira Gandhi National Tribal University in Dima Hasao district, the Dimasa Students’ Union submitted a memorandum to Prakash Javedkar, Union Human Resource Development Minister, through the Deputy Commissioner of Dima Hasao on Wednesday.
The memorandum signed by Sidut Naiding, president, and Pramith Sengyung, general secretary, of Dimasa Students’ Union, stated that Assam was home to more than 30 tribal communities. They were still lagging behind, educationally and socially. Some universities were too expensive for people of these tribes to enrol for higher education. Being deprived of education, these tribal communities get themselves involved in anti-government activities, the memorandum added.
In this regard, if a campus of Indira Gandhi National Tribal University is established in the region then it could fill up this vacuum. If the campus gets established in Dima Hasao district, which is also a tribal dominated area, it will benefit the indigenous tribes of the region in particular and of the other neighbouring States in general, stated the memorandum.
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