United Boro People's Organization demands special funds for BKWAC

* State Government urged to take steps in this year's Budget session

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LAKHIMPUR: The UBPO (United Boro People's Organization) has demanded the State Government to fulfil the poll promises. as the consequence of the support of the organization extended towards the BJP-led alliance (Bharatiya Janata Party Mitrajoot) candidates in the Assam Legislative Assembly Election, 2021.

The organization has raised the demand through a press release sent to the media on Sunday. In the press release, UBPO State president Manoranjan Basumatari, general secretary Pitambar Brahma and its chairperson Badal Mussahari said, " The first Budget Session of the second BJP-led government of the State will Start from July 12. We have urged the State Government to initiate steps to resolve the issues which our organization has been raising since a long time."

Through the press release, the organization remanded the State government for the release of special financial package to the recently constituted Boro Kachari Welfare Autonomous Council (BKWAC), grant of permanent Land Pattas (settlement) to the indigenous Bodo Kachari Tribe (ST) families under the provision of Scheduled Tribe and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act-2006 with immediate effect.

It also demanded the inclusion of the Boro Kachari people living within Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao Autonomous Districts of Assam in the List of ST (Hills) as per the clause No. 6 of the Bodo Peace Accord, 2020 which is popularly known as the BTR Accord-2020.

Other demands include grant of Boro Cultural Research Centre under the administrative jurisdiction of the BKWAC for promoting cultural and social ethics and its uplift, special grants for establishing educational institutions in BKWAC run by State and Union Government, provincialization of the Boro-medium LP, ME and High Schools in the State, creation of the post for subject teachers in the Boro MIL at the Higher Secondary School level in the State, creation of adequate number of lecturer posts in Boro Department at all provincialized and Deficit College under all the State Universities on need basis, an arrangement for special TET Examination for the Boro-medium Students of the State.

It further demanded declaration of the flood and erosion problems of Assam as National Disaster and to take scientific measures to resolve permanently the flood and erosion problems, intervention of the Union Government and the concerned State Governments jointly in the matter of exploration of ways and means to bring about suitable solution of the vexed Assam-Nagaland, Assam-Arunachal Pradesh, Assam-Mizoram and Assam-Meghalaya inter-States boundary disputes, restoration of the alienated of land and ancestral territories of the Tribal People within the Tribal Belt and Blocks, TSP and Forest areas and strict enforcement of the provision of the Chapter-X of the Assam Land and Revenue Manual, 1886 (Amended in 1947) in letter and spirit.

It also called for necessary arrangements to provide rehabilitation to the former BLT cadres and surrendered NDFB militants and withdraw all Bodoland movement-related cases lying pending against the Ex-BLT and NDFB surrendered with immediate effect, to take urgent initiative for installation of at least two Door Darshan Kendra at Sanjari Nwgwr, Simen Chapari in Dhemaji district and at Jayphukuri in Golaghat district, raise of a Bodo Regiment with the strength of 10,000 Bodo youths in Indian Army in line with the Naga Regiment.

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