Chief minister Hemant Soren takes part in the online Niti Aayog meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in Ranchi on Saturday
RANCHI: Chief minister Hemant Soren has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to include a separate column for tribals in the Census register for upcoming 16th Indian Census commencing from this year. Among several other demands made at Niti Ayog’s online meeting chaired by the PM in presence of many other CMs, Soren also stressed on the need to strengthen “Bharat” (villages) for India to become Atmanirbhar (self-reliant), increase in MNREGA wages to reduce rural distress and universalisation of old-age pension.
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RANCHI: Tribal groups from Jharkhand will head for Delhi from February 25 onwards to shift their protest to the national capital to demand a separate tribal religious code in the upcoming census.
On Saturday, members of different groups under the banner of Rashtriya Adivasi Dharma Samanway Samiti (National Tribal Religion Coordination Committee), staged a daylong dharna outside the Raj Bhavan to press for the demand.
Notably, chief minister Hemant Soren, whose government had passed a resolution for a separate tribal code in the assembly last year, too, raised the demand before Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the online meeting of Niti Aayog.