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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Nomadic tribes extend support to NREGS workers

Nomadic tribes extend support to NREGS workers

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published Published on Oct 24, 2010   modified Modified on Oct 24, 2010

For the first time, the ongoing Mazdoor Satyagrah at Statue Circle here, brought together various nomadic and marginalised communities in the state on a common platform on Thursday.

Representatives from the Kalbeliya, Garia Lohar, Banjara, Kherua and other communities came together, sharing the platform with NREGS workers demanding minimum wages.

"These are communities that don't even have an identity card to prove themselves, a proper residential facility, schools for their children or even basic amenities. In the absence of these, they dont have a job card and fail to get job under the NREGS," said Kamal Tonk, an activist of the Suchna Evum Rozgar Ka Adhikar Abhiyan.

The congregation not only became a stage for the first such meeting but also the crowd assembled at the venue could get to know the problems faced by the community as individual members came up for sharing their experience.

Giving them a ear was Sayeeda Hameed, member, Planning Commission, who was on her way back to Delhi from Bharatpur. "I am lucky to have made a stopover, else I would not have come to know of these basic problems being faced by you," she said. "These are absolutely basic problems and need to be addressed. I will take up your problems and give them to the prime minister's office. There is a need to create more awareness on these issues faced by them. It will be a big loss for the government if they don't address these issues," she said.

There is also a demand for a nodal officer for each such tribe so as to get their problems addressed and also for land rights so that the members of the community can set up their home. "There should be a boarding school too to ensure that their children get education when their parents are not around," added Nikhil Dey of the Abhiyan.

Later, a delegation also met chief secretary S Ahmed. It was also decided to form a state-wide forum of representatives of these communities so that they can have meetings periodically and come up with the problems facing them. The issues would then be addressed by Aditi Mehta, principal secretary, social justice and empowerment.


The Times of India, 22 October, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Nomadic-tribes-extend-support-to-NREGS-workers/articleshow/6789541.cms


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