December 8, 2022
Shanta Chhetri raised the issue of giving the status of scheduled tribe to 11 Gorkha communities
Thank you Honourable Chairman Sir, for giving me the opportunity to speak in my mother tongue, Nepali. I wish to raise the issue regarding conferring the Scheduled Tribe status upon certain communities. This very year 2022, the Union Cabinet under the Chairmanship of Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved of conferring the status of Scheduled Tribe upon many tribes from four states. It seems that except the Gorkhas, efforts are still being made to include many other communities in the list. Perhaps it is the only tribe of Gorkha community which remains deprived of this status by the Prime Minister and Home Minister. Whenever any question is raised on the issue of ST status, RGI says that the State Government needs to send the data. Then why three
committees were constituted at that time? The letters sent by the ministry of Tribal Affairs, No. 16017/11/2022 C&LM dated 03-06-2022 mentions that RGI has not accepted the report sent by the State Govt. What types of documents the RGI has collected on these eleven tribes in order to consider their cases to be listed as STs? Further, the documents sent by the State Government should also be presented to Parliament which would help the Central Government consider their cases for the inclusion in the ST list. Thank you.
