April 12, 2026 09:31 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Legendary singer Asha Bhosle suffers cardiac arrest, hospitalised | Big boost to India–Mauritius ties: S. Jaishankar hands over 90 e-buses | Middle East tension: Iranian delegation arrives in Islamabad for major talks, 10,000 security personnel deployed | Ranveer Singh visits RSS HQ amid Dhurandhar 2 success, triggers speculation | ED raids ex-Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee; SSC scam resurfaces ahead of polls | Amit Shah promises UCC, ₹3,000 aid per month for women and youth in BJP’s Bengal manifesto | Nitish Kumar takes Rajya Sabha oath; power shift looms in Bihar | Sting video fallout: AIMIM snaps electoral ties with Humayun Kabir in Bengal | Israel says Hezbollah chief’s nephew-cum-secretary killed in Beirut strikes last night | Modi slams TMC on trade, fisheries at Haldia; vows 7th pay commission for govt employees

CS level meeting held on issues of granting ST (Plain) Status to six communities in Assam

| | Sep 20, 2016, at 12:48 am
Guwahati, Sept 19 (IBNS) : Assam Chief Secretary Vinod Kumar Pipersenia on Sunday said that the state government is very much keen to resolve the issues pertaining to granting of ST (Plain) status to the six communities of the State while chairing a meeting held at the Assam Secretariat, Dispur to discuss the issue of granting ST (Plain) status to six communities of the State, namely, Moran, Matak, Koch Rajbongshi, Chutia, Adivasi/ Tea Tribes and Tai Ahom with the leaders of the concerned communities.

        
The Chief Secretary and other high level officers of the State Government discussed at length with the leaders of the Communities on various issues involved in the process of granting ST (Plain) status to the six communities.

The Chief Secretary assured that he will take up the matter with the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India and will try to expedite the process.

He also called on the leaders of the six communities to extend all-out cooperation to the State Government and jointly work towards the expeditious solution of the issues.
      

The meeting was also attended by TY Das, Additional Chief Secretary, Home and Political Department; Rajiv Bora, Additional Chief Secretary, Welfare of Plain Tribes and Backward Classes Department; Mukesh Sahay, Director General of Police; Pallab Bhattacharya, Additional Director General of Police (SB); LS Changsan, Commissioner and Secretary, Home and Political Department; and BR Samal, Commissioner and Secretary, Welfare of Plain Tribes and Backward Classes Department.

 

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

 

Image:Google Maps

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.