Janatecha Jahirnama Underlines The Tribal Issues in Country, Only on IBN-Lokmat

Speaking by the term “tribe” mean, a group of people that live at a particular place from time immemorial. Constitutionally a tribe is he who has been mentioned in the scheduled list of Indian constitution under Article 342(i) and 342(ii). The Scheduled Tribes (STs) according to the 1991 Census account for 67.76 million representing 8.08 per cent of the country's population. They are spread across the country mainly in the forest and hilly regions. This show of Janatecha Jahirnamagives opportunity to the tribes from different walks of life such as working professionals, social activists, students, youths & women to express their views & expectations by new government. Tune in to IBN-Lokmat this Saturday 19^th of April at 6.30 pm to know more about the peoples’ perspective over tribal development promises made the new government, its merits and demerits. This show of Janatecha Jahirnama is presented by Hero & co presented by AJNARA.

More than 70 per cent of the ST population is concentrated in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Gujarat.Tribals constitute 8.14% of the total population of the country, numbering 84.51 million (2001 Census) and cover about 15% of the country’s area. The fact that tribal people need special attention can be observed from their low social, economic and participatory indicators. Whether it is maternal and child mortality, size of agricultural holdings or access to drinking water and electricity, tribal communities lag far behind the general population. 52% of Tribal population is Below Poverty Line and what is staggering is that 54% tribals have no access to economic assets such as communication and transport.

Such local communities are deprived access to many natural resources, which are very essential to their economy, culture, and political systems. As a result of this the makers of our Constitution thought of enhancement of the society by providing all the sections of our society equal opportunity to contest and win elections to govern the country due to the democratic way of governance of India. Hence tribal constituency was formed in India.

Tune in to IBN-Lokmat Janatecha Jahirnama on Monday 14^th of April at 6.30 pm to know more about the tribal issues and what kind of development these tribal voters expect from the upcoming Indian government.