Last Updated: Wednesday, October 12,
2011, 15:37
Chalsa (WB): Adivasi leaders
of Dooars and Terai in West Bengal today met state Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee and said they would not allow any area from the two tribal regions to
be included in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration formed recently.
The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha had demanded
at the time of the GTA agreement that some mouzas of the two adivasi regions be
included in the authority. While Dooars has 98 mouzas, Terai has 123.
The Dooars lies on the foothills of the
eastern Himalayas around Bhutan while Terai is the area near the Siwalik range,
the lowest outer foothills of the Himalayas.
Representatives of various adivasi
organisations like the Toto Kalyan Samiti, Bodo People's Forum and Akhil
Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad in a meeting with the Chief Minister here put
forward three alternatives.
Either an authority on the lines of the
GTA to be named as Adivasi Territorial Administration for the two regions be
formed, an Adivasi Autonomous Council be created or both the regions be
included in the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution.
They also submitted some memorandums
containing their demands to the Chief Minister.
Mamata said she needed some time to
consider their demands.
PTI
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