Telangana Girijana Joint Action Committee (TG-JAC) has demanded that the State government emulate the TDP government of 1986, and issue a government order increasing the ST reservations to 10 per cent.
The ST Reservation Bill was rejected by the Centre, owing to its clubbing with the Minorities Reservation Bill which went against the Indian Constitution, the JAC leaders M. Surya Naik and D. Ravindra Naik alleged. In view of the spiralling rivalries between two sections of the STs, the government should take immediate action about the reservations, they said.
Further elaborating on its demand through a press statement, the JAC said an inquiry should be conducted into the alleged injustice meted out to the Gond, Koya, Kollam tribes, and if found true, supernumerary posts should be created for them. So far, only 3.5 per cent posts of the 6.5 per cent quota have been filled up with the STs, the JAC claimed.
The said tribes should be allotted the Girijan Cooperative Corporation Chairman, and Forest Development Corporation Chairman posts, while Lambada tribe should be allotted the Tribes Cooperative Finance Corporation chairman and ST Commission Chairman posts after dividing ST Commission from the present SC ST Commission, the list of demands said. These apart, locations of rampant female infanticide and foeticide and sale of girl children should be identified and ₹5 lakh should be deposited in the name of each girl child from such places. Tribal Welfare residential schools for girls should be set up in such places.
The newly formed tribal hamlets should be recognised as village panchayats and allocated ₹ 5 crore each from the budget.
Drinking water, nutritional food, and medical facilities should be provided through National Rural Health Mission and food security schemes, where tribal deaths are reported due to malnutrition, Malaria, Diarrhoea, Jaundice, Dengue and kidney ailments, the note demanded.
