Assam's Chief Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, launched a one-time financial assistance scheme, distributing Rs 5,000 each to over 6 lakh tea garden workers. This initiative is part of broader efforts ...

Despite ST status in other states, over 70 lakh Adivasis remain categorised as OBCs in Assam Political resistance and competing claims continue to delay constitutional recognition Amarjeet Kerketta’s ...

The Coordination Committee of Tribal Organisations of Assam on Friday opposed the state ministers’ report that recommends granting Scheduled Tribe status to six communities. The committee said that ...

The Coordination Committee of Tribal Organisations of Assam (CCTOA) has rejected the “illegal and unconstitutional” recommendations of the Group of Ministers to grant Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to ...

GUWAHATI: The Coordination Committee of Tribal Organisations of Assam (CCTOA) has rejected the recommendations of the Group of Ministers (GoM) to grant Scheduled Tribes (ST) status to six communities ...

Several thousand tea estate workers, many of them Catholics, in India’s northeastern state of Assam staged a mass protest on Oct. 13 to demand constitutional status as tribal people, higher wages, and ...

The Coordination Committee of Tribal Organisations of Assam (CCTOA), an umbrella body of 26 tribal organisations, on Friday rejected the recommendation of the Group of Ministers (GoM) for inclusion of ...

Guwahati (Assam) [India], December 24 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday presented appointment letters to 215 candidates from the Tea Tribes and Adivasi communities for ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday announced that the state government would extend 3 per cent reservation for the Adivasi and Tea communities to Grade-I and Grade-II positions in the ...