Implement recommendations of 3rd Bodo Peace Accord, UBPO demands

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LAKHIMPUR: UBPO (United Bodo People's Organization) has once again demanded the State Government to implement the recommendations of the 3rd Bodo Peace Accord at the earliest. The organization reiterated the demand in the wake of taking a slew of resolutions regarding the burning issues of the Bodo community after holding detailed discussion in an executive body meeting organized on Wednesday.

The meeting was organized at the literature and cultural complex of the Bodo Sahitya Sabha located at Bathoupuri. The meeting commenced with UBPO president Manoranjan Basumatary in the chair. The objective of the meeting was explained by general secretary Pitambar Brahma.

Attending the meeting, adviser Bipin Gayari remarked that UBPO must play vital role to get the Bodo villages notified for the constituencies under BKWAC (Bodo Kachari Welfare Autonomous Council) and to get the electoral roll for the same prepared at the earliest. He suggested to pressurize the State Government to take immediate moves in this regard. UBPO chairperson Badal Mushahari and BKWAC EM Anil Basumatary also delivered lectures regarding the issues attending the event.

As per resolutions adopted in the meeting, the UBPO further demanded the Boundary Commission, constituted as per the recommendation of the 3rd Bodo Peace Accord, to include the Bodo community villages under Biswanath and Sinitpur districts either in BTR or in BKWAC after identifying them. In the same event, UBPO decided to hold talk with Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma with regard to initiating steps to grant hills area tribal status to the Bodo community living in Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao districts as per Section 8 of BTC Accord and Section 6.1 of 3rd Bodo Peace Accord, to form Bodo Regiment with Bodo unemployed youths, to accord land rights to the traditional forest dwellers as per the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, to provincialize the unprovincialized schools and to appoint Bodo language professors in the colleges outside the BTAD as per Section 6.3 of 3rd Bodo Peace Accord and many other issues, after March 31.

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