Adivasis associated with tea gardens are a major vote bank who migrated from Congress to BJP
The Assam cabinet on November 4 approved the reservation of seats in state-run medical colleges for students from the “tea tribe” community.
There are eight government medical colleges in Assam. The tribals associated with the tea gardens are considered a major vote bank that migrated from the Congress to the Bharatiya Janata Party.
“Seats for MBBS and BDS” [Bachelor of Dental Surgery] The reserve for tea garden communities has been divided proportionately between the Brahmaputra Valley and the Barak Valley,” Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
The Cabinet decided to reserve 24 MBBS and three BDS seats for the tea garden community working in 803 major estates and several small tea gardens.
While 18 seats have been reserved for the students of the Brahmaputra Valley of the community, six seats have been reserved for the Barak Valley. Similarly, two BDS seats are for the Brahmaputra Valley and one for the Barak Valley.
The cabinet also approved the conversion of a land allotment certificate into a periodic ‘patta’ (title deed of a property) in rural areas within three years of allotment.
“Case of conversion which have not completed the mandate period of years for obtaining periodic ‘patta’ shall be covered under Mission Basundhara, subject to the condition that the allotted land is not transferred and for that purpose only It has been utilized for what it was allotted for,” the chief minister said.
Mission Basundhara, launched a few weeks ago, seeks to solve and make land revenue services more accessible to the people. One portal for this mission handles nine land-related services such as mutation by right of inheritance, mutation after deed registration, partition for undisputed cases and reclassification of agricultural land less than one ‘bigha’ to non-agricultural land.
Other cabinet decisions included assistance to priests and ‘namghoris’ (people associated with ‘namghars’ or Vaishnava prayer halls). For this, it is necessary to give a one-time grant of ₹ 15,000 to these categories of people.
Assam Pravasi Shramik Food Security Scheme was also approved to provide dry ration to migrant workers affected by COVID-19. A government spokesperson said that district officials would be tasked to distribute dry ration based on the data of migrant workers available on the e-shram portal and other available resources.
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