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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | In a Jharkhand village, Adivasis have received bank cards - but not the education to read them -Anumeha Yadav

In a Jharkhand village, Adivasis have received bank cards - but not the education to read them -Anumeha Yadav

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The Paharia Adivasi community says they are cheated in their banking transactions and don't know what to do with the debit cards.

Just days after the Central government’s demonetisation announcement on November 8 kicked off a major push for digital payments, Kusheshwar Paharia, a resident of Nathgoda village in Jharkhand’s Godda district, received a thick packet in the mail.

It contained a letter from the State Bank of India, with which he has held an account for the past seven years, and a Kisan Card with the image of a farmer couple. The letter contained instructions on how he could use his first debit card – “check for tampering. Sign the reverse of the card. Change your PIN to a more familiar combination. Make sure your four-digit PIN stays confidential”, and so on.

The problem was that the entire letter was in English. Kusheshwar Paharia, the manjhi or headman of Nathgoda, never went to school. He speaks fluent Paharia and Santhali, and a smattering of Hindi, but no English.

He handed over the letter and debit card to Chandrima Paharia, a young man in the village with experience of working with non-governmental organisations. That’s as far as the debit card has got for the last eight weeks.

“I take the cattle out to graze every morning, and stay in the forest the whole day,” said the elderly Kusheshwar Paharia. “How do I know how to use it? The letter they sent is in English, no one in our village can read it.”

Chandrima Paharia said he, too, was not sure how to get the debit card activated. “I will try, but I do not know how to,” he said.

The Saoria Paharia have been designated a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group and have the smallest population among Adivasi communities in the state. There are 2.2 lakh Adivasis in Jharkhand who are included in the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups, and the Saoria Paharia make up 13,682 of this number.

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Scroll.in, 8 February, 2017, https://scroll.in/article/827866/in-a-remote-hamlet-in-jharkhand-paharias-adivasi-receive-their-first-plastic-cards-but-no-education


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