Hemant announces ‘khadi grant’ of Rs 2,000 for Tana Bhagats Farmers’ plight would have saddened Gandhi deeply, says Congress on eve of party’s tractor rally in Santhal Pargana
Chief minister Hemant Soren announced an annual ‘khadi grant’ of Rs 2,000 for every member of the Tana Bhagat sect on Saturday, the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
The idea is to help members of the sect that adheres to Gandhian ideals buy and maintain their signature attire (white khadi kurta/sari and cap),said government sources.
“Like policemen who get uniforms, we have now decided to provide Rs 2,000 per year to every Tana Bhagat. For the first time in 20 years, a government is in place which is sensitive to everyone’s needs and aspirations,” the chief minister said at Banhora on the outskirts of Ranchi where he inaugurated a guest house for Tana Bhagats built at a cost of Rs 2.73cr.
Congress tractor rally in Santhal Pargana January 31 procession to begin in Godda and end in Deoghar
Congress, which is part of the ruling alliance in Jharkhand, announced on Thursday that it will hold a tractor rally in Santhal Parganas on January 31 in a show of solidarity with protesting farmers in Delhi who are demanding the repeal of three contentious farm laws.
Addressing a press conference at the party office here, senior leader and state agriculture minister Badal Patralekh said, “The tractor rally on January 31 will begin from Godda district’s Kargil chowk and will end in Rohini in Deoghar district.
Invasion of the Coolie Catchers: ‘Tea Tribe’ Adivasis of Assam Abducted and damned
When Kali Murmu left his hut for the forest with a bow and quiver in hand to pluck some fruits, he hardly knew it would be his last day in Pakur.
The year was 1837, when the trade war over Chinese tea raged dangerously with England, America, France, Spain and Netherlands flexing their muscles against each other.
In Europe, tea then was rich men’s status symbol and poor men’s dream.
Kali, a 21-year old Santhal, will soon be at Chabua in Upper Assam where Charles Alexander Bruce, an Irishman, was creating tea gardens and needed working hands.
Thank you from India
I would like to thank the Mission Fund for its donation of €2,500, of which €500 are for Mass intentions and €2,000 for subsidising biblical and religious material in Santali, the language of the largest tribe in India, the Santals.
I have been in India for the last 63 years and, since my priestly ordination, I have been working most of the time as a parish priest among the Santals. Santal Parganas is the homeland of the Santals but, forced by poverty, they have migrated to many other northern states in India and settled there.
The Santal Catholics are now spread out in 17 other dioceses and these in the diaspora rely on us from the homeland to give them biblical and religious material in Santali. For the last few years, I have been put in charge of this ministry of religious publications.
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