Ninong Ering urges to PM Modi for declaration of Yobins as Scheduled Tribes

Our Correspondent

Itanagar: Lok Sabha member from Arunachal Pradesh Ninong Ering has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revise the recent cabinet decision and to include the Yobin tribe of the state in the Scheduled Tribe list.

The Congress MP from Arunachal East Parliamentary constituency while welcoming the decision of the union cabinet to approve The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill 2018 for revision in the list of the Scheduled Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, in a letter to the PM, said the union cabinet in its latest decision includes four tribes; however, the Yobin community has been left behind.

“It is the duty of a government to provide voice to the voiceless and to do justice with the Yobins and realize the slogan of Sabka saath, sabka vikas,” Ering wrote.

Meanwhile, the MP withdrew his private member bill which was introduced in Parliament in 2015 in this regard, following the Centre’s decision to introduce the ST amendment bill in Parliament.

Through his private member bill, Ering repeatedly raised the demand to include Nocte, Tangsa, Tutsa, Wancho and Yobin in the list.

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