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Nandyal MP Byreddy Shabari renewed the long-pending request for granting Scheduled Tribe (ST) presumption to the Boya-Valmiki community, urging the Central authorities to present a Bill and ‘deliver long-awaited justice’.
The TDP MP raised the contented during the Zero Hour successful the Lok Sabha, connected Wednesday. Ms. Shabari said that the community, historically known arsenic wood hunters and present mostly babelike connected wood nutrient and agriculture, remained socially, educationally and economically backward. She opined that the assemblage was unjustly listed nether the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871, and that the Deputy Registrar General of India had recommended its inclusion successful the ST list, arsenic aboriginal arsenic 1961.
Highlighting that successful 2017, nether the enactment of past Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council unanimously passed a solution seeking ST presumption for the Boyas.
The MP pointed retired that neighbouring States of Karnataka and Telangana had already recognised Boya-Valmikis arsenic STs. She said that immoderate further hold successful the inclusion of the assemblage successful the database would lone escalate the injustice to them.
