Bodoland Janajati Suraksha Mancha (BJSM) expresses resentment over transfer of power to DCs

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KOKRAJHAR: Bodoland Janajati Suraksha Mancha (BJSM) on Monday expressed strong resentment over the transfer of executive power of 6th schedule administration to DCs of the four BTC districts which was notified recently by Principal Secretary of BTC vide No. 679/2020/46.

The working president of the BJSM, DD Narzary said that it was unfortunate that the existing leaders of BTR led by Pramod Boro had surrendered the power of executives of 6th schedule administration to DCs without bringing amendment of the new BTR accord in the Parliament. He said that the BTC was an outcome of supreme sacrifice of thousands of Bodo people but today, the BTC chief Pramod Boro, minister UG Brahma, Speaker Biswajit Daimary and ABSU president Dipen Boro had sold it for political interest and thus surrendered the powers one after another.

Meanwhile, the president of BJSM Janaklal Basumatary, in a separate statement, said the monitoring and supervising the functioning of administration of subject transferred to BTC sixth schedule administration to DCs of districts meant that the BTC administration had surrendered its autonomy of executive power to the State Government because DCs were State Government executives, not of the BTC administration. He said that monitoring and supervising the implementation of developmental schemes in BTC administration by DCs would render the heads of various departments run by Additional Secretary rank officers of BTC, powerless.

Basumatary said that the Principal Secretary had delegated this power to the DCs of the State Government but the BTC sixth schedule administration had surrendered its own power to monitor and supervise works of administration of its own allotted subjects in the name of implementation of the BTR agreement. "BTR is not constitutionally mandated, but BTC is constitutionally mandated as sixth schedule administration. The established administrative set up in BTC cannot be disturbed by reducing its administrative control over its own work in order to implement the BTR agreement without constitutional mandate," he said.

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