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Context:
In November 2018, the Adivasis of Jhargram, West Bengal, died in large number while preparing for the Bandhna festival.
The cause of deaths could not be medically verified. Some were of the view that tuberculosis was the cause of the death. The opinion State government was – “It was not undernourishment. They died of tuberculosis and excessive drinking”.
Their lifespan is approximately 26 years less than the average Indian’s life expectancy. Their lives are full of uncertainties, and death is considered the most normal of happenings.
Administration failed to detect anything about the catastrophe until a few surviving inhabitants of the village made a plea to rescue them from hunger and diseases.
Failure of Administrative Authorities in that region:
Despite the village’s proximity to several public offices such as the panchayat, block and district headquarters, being surrounded by other ethnic groups with better access to information, and even economically connected with relatively advantaged neighbours, the real reasons that caused the deaths hardly drew any public attention.
Surveillance by the administrative authorities over the population in all other matters of their lives had failed to detect anything about the catastrophe until a few surviving inhabitants of the village made a plea to rescue them from hunger and diseases.
Study finds a knowledge gap resulted in Democratic Denial for the Adivasis:
Negative sides of adopt assimilation policy:
Need of the hour: following Tribal Panchsheel policy in Letter and Spirit:
Way Ahead:
Rather, policy framing requires mandatory recognition of their wide diversity so as to address the different problems faced by different groups by community as well as by region.
It is also important to abide by the general constitutional rules which are often violated by the state.
In other words, the very common instances of violations of the Forest Rights Act, the Right to Education Act, and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act which affect them have to be eliminated.
The possibility of fair implementation of public programmes, however, is contingent to an agentic involvement of the communities concerned.
Conclusion:
Therefore, it is important to go beyond the administrative convention of bracketing Adivasis into a single category.
Instead of being considered to be mere passive recipients, Adivasis must be respected as active agents of change and involved in all spheres of policy, from planning to implementation.
It is imperative that the entire outlook on the Adivasi question is reversed. Instead of considering Adivasis to be a problem, the entire country can benefit a great deal by considering them as co-citizens and sharing their historically constructed cultural values which often manifest the best forms of democracy and uphold the notions of higher levels of justice, fairness, and equality better than those prevalent in seemingly mainstream societies.
By ensuring their right to live their own lives, the country can in fact guarantee itself a flourishing democracy.
By: DATTA DINKAR CHAVAN ProfileResourcesReport error
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