Tribals demand constitutional safeguards for rights in Assam

Silchar: The All Adivasi Students’ Association Assam (AASAA) staged a protest in Silchar on Monday demanding constitutional safeguards for their rights.
AASAA submitted a memo to Union home minister Amit Shah through DC (Cachar), Rohan Kumar Jha.
Their six-point charter of demands include constitutional safeguards for adivasi communities, especially in the Bodoland Territorial Council, Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council and Dima Hasao Autonomous Council.
Their other demands include land possession and voting rights in autonomous councils. Their main grouse is that even after applying for Vasundhara Scheme 1.0 and 2.0, they have not been given land patta.
Debojyoti Tanti, secretary of AASAA, Cachar district committee, told media persons, “We have been living in forest areas for decades. Under the Forests Rights Act, 2006 we should be given the right to live and livelihood”