Ranchi, Sept.27: Four-hour long tribal advisory council meeting constituted a sub-committee with Bandhu Tirkey, Deepak Birua and Stephen Marandi besides others as its members to settle tribal land related issues.
Other decisions included meeting of TAC members with the prime minister under the leadership of its chairman and state chief minister Hemant Soren, life time validity of birth certificate issued to tribals, establishment of a tribal university at Jamshedpur, sending a proposal to centre through governor on the matter of Sarna religion code in census, formulation of law on tribal human trafficking, stress on tribal development, review of cases of tribal languishing in jail for a long time, proper security to tribal religious land.
TAC vice chairman Champai Soren informed this to the media after the meeting.
BJP legislators did not turn up in the meeting.
TAC is a constitutional body formed under the Fifth Schedule to deal with welfare and advancement of scheduled tribes in states. It consists of 15 MLAs from ST assembly seats and three members who are experts on tribal affairs. It is headed by the incumbent CM as per provisions of Schedule 5 of the Constitution.
