Margao: Even when the World Tribal Day is celebrated on Monday, the Dhangar community in Goa awaits its inclusion in the Scheduled Tribe category (ST).
Head of Minister of Pram Sawant Together with Deputy Chief Minister Chandrakan Kavlekar has met with Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah and Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda last month to discuss the inclusion of the Dhangar Goa community in the category.
The Dhangar community has accused the consecutive government to pay for its lip service, and also accused using the community as their voice bank.
The source said that Shah and Munda assured the state government that the necessary steps would be taken in that.
The Indian Registrar (RGI) has collected several questions for proposals and refused to accept the Dhangars case as a different tribal community, the main criteria to put in St.
“The state government has submitted a 500-page research report on tribes to support proposals including Dhangars in the St.
Category of Information relating to the explanation sought by RGI contained in the report, which may be ignored by officials,” a senior official who is aware of the aware Progression to Toi.
In June 1999, the government had approved modalities to decide on cases for inclusion, exceptions and other modifications in the SCS and STS list.
Indication of primitive properties, distinctive culture, geographical isolation, shame contact with society in general, and retardation is the criteria adopted to determine the character of the community tribal.
Dhangars of Goa, who was also called as a Gouys, had fought together Gaudas, Kunbis, and the Coodle to demand their inclusion into the St.
category, in what became known as the Gakaved movement.
After a protracted battle, the Gauda community, Kunbi and Veliip were given constitutional status as a tribe that was notified in 2003, but Dhangars since it was abandoned.