Indigenous Tribal Sahitya Sabha, Assam (ITSSA) Puts Pressure on Centre, Submits Memo

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: A high-level delegation of Indigenous Tribal Sahitya Sabha, Assam (ITSSA) has put pressure on the Centre to concede to their various demands.

Towards this end the delegation led by the ITSSA president Govinda Taid submitted memoranda to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda, Social Justice & Empowerment Minister Thawarchand Gehlot and HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal highlighting their demands and pressing for early resolution. The delegation submitted the memoranda to respective ministers on Wednesday and Thursday.

The ITSSA in its memorandum demanded inclusion of representatives from all indigenous xahitya xabhas in the high-level committee on Clause 6 of Assam Accord. The committee constituted by the Centre recently will put forward resolutions and suggestions to accord the Constitutional safeguard to indigenous people of Assam. The ITSSA has demanded that those who become eligible to get Indian citizenship by entering Assam in between 1951 and March 25, 1971 must be kept outside the ambit of Constitutional safeguard.

Demanding protection of all tribal belts & blocks in the State from encroachers and illegal Bangladeshis, the ITSSA through its memoranda to different central ministers pressed for publication of an error-free NRC on time.

The ITSSA has also demanded inclusion of Mising, Rabha Hasong, Tiwa, Deuri and Sonowal Kachari Autonomous Councils under the Sixth schedule of the Constitution.

Demanding allocation of Rs 10,000 crore every year for flood relief & rehabilitation work in Assam, the ITFFA advocated that the draft New Education Policy 2019 must incorporate the clause of using ethnic languages as medium of instruction.

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