Jharkhand CM presses for Sarna Adivasi Dharma Code to be included in Census 2021

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren Saturday reiterated that the Central authorities ought to take into account the proposal despatched for the demand of Sarna Adivasi Dharma Code after it was handed by the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. He additionally added that the old-age pension must be common and that the minimal labour wage of MGNREGA must be elevated.
Speaking on the NITI Aayog governing council assembly of 2021, Soren stated, “We have sent a proposal related to the demand for Sarna Adivasi Dharma Code, passed from Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. We believe that the Government of India will consider it sympathetically. Separate columns should be arranged for them in the census as well.”
The tribal inhabitants have demanded the Sarna code ever for the reason that state was created in 2000. In truth final yr in November, the Jharkhand authorities had convened a particular Assembly session and handed a decision to ship the Centre a letter recommending it to recognise the Sarna faith and embrace a separate code for it within the subsequent census. For the final a few years a number of protests and conferences have been held by numerous tribal teams in Jharkhand and elsewhere pushing the identical demand.
Raising the difficulty of universalising the pension scheme for senior residents, the Chief Minister stated that they complain about not getting pension advantages and after inquiry it emerged that the set goal had already been achieved. “Can we not benefit this population by giving them a universal pension? The pension amount has not been increased by the central government since 2007, although the state government has increased it from the state fund. The central government should consider universalising the pension,” he added.
The Chief Minister additionally pressed for growing the MNREGA wage fee, arguing that Jharkhand is a labour-intensive state. “Jharkhand is a labor-intensive state. There is a need to consider creating employment opportunities for them. The central government has marked a wage rate of Rs 202, which is lower than other states of the country. At present, the workers of Jharkhand are not able to reap optimum benefits from the MGNREGA,” he stated in the course of the assembly.
On the difficulty of fund cuts by the Centre in the course of the pandemic, the CM stated that the Central authorities share given to the Jharkhand is Rs 1,750 crores in a number of schemes, nonetheless, it was lowered to Rs 1,200 crores. “Also, during the Corona transition period, DVC deducted Rs 2131 crore from the state government account. This was done for the first time with any state in the country. Being a labor-intensive state, this fund was necessary for Jharkhand to control the spread of the pandemic,” he stated.