Keri: Gouly Dhangar Community From Goa who has been looking for tribal status (ST) scheduled since the last century, has submitted fresh memoranda to the central government to fulfill their long-delayed demand.
The Elector General of India previously raised the question of the inclusion of Gouy Dhangar in the Statan Staties based on Article 342 of the Indian Constitution, and the Chairman of the Minister of Pramod Sawant who led the ministerial delegation and community members to New Delhi recently, was delivered to Memoranda to the Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah and Minister of Affairs Tribal Arjun Munda.
They have agreed to see this problem.
Gakavedh, an organization established for the inclusion of the Gavda, Kunbi, Velip and Dhangar community in the ST list, has demanded ST status for the four communities.
However, Dhangars is removed from the list by the central government.
Incidentally, Gouy Dhangar is the first community recommended by the Government Goa to be included in the St Way list in 1963.
In 2003 the Gavda community, Kunbi and Velip were included in the list of Goa Government Stadium.
Deputy Minister of Chief Chandrakan Kavlekar told the central ministers that Gouly Dhangars was consistently recorded as a pastoral resignation community, which was marginalized, economically and education by the Goa government.
He said that including the community in the ST list will help in community empowerment.
In 2009 the anthropologist CJ Hussain Khan and Prof.
SV Hitalali from the University of Karnataka had submitted a report based on an ethnographic investigation, anthropometric, somatoscopic and serological conducted on the Dhangar Dhangar Gaugar who lived in the forest.
This study was received by the Government of Goa.
The report has emphasized that Dhangar Gouly is a community of exclusive forest counts that live in the forest and mountainous areas of Goa.
The community speaks their own dialects that are different from Marathi, Konkani and worship their ancestors.