The affiliation additionally demanded that the authorities limition the sale of tribal lands beneathneath Schedule five of the Constitution.
Munuswamy, who belongs to the Irula tribe dwelling in Pallavaram cantonment vicinity, has been suffering with out a job, on pinnacle of the concern of dropping his home. He belongs to one of the six hundred Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste households dwelling withinside the cantonment regions in the beginning allocated for the protection branch who're susceptible to displacement, while the navy needs that they vacate the land. The loss of a everlasting house for the beyond forty years and the COVID-19 precipitated lockdown has driven the tribal groups dwelling on brief settlements in Tamil Nadu into top notch distress.
The Tamil Nadu Tribal People Association, bringing up those problems, staged a protest at Pallavaram with 5 charters, along with call for for opportunity land for the households dwelling at the cantonment vicinity in addition to economic resource of Rs 10,000 in line with family, as a result of the pandemic.
Boopalan, nation deputy standard secretary of Tamil Nadu Tribal Association, said, "The tribal folks who have been dwelling their lives primarily based totally on their each day wages have been placed to go through throughout the pandemic. The few households with Tribal Welfare Cards obtained a sum of most effective Rs 2,000 as help throughout the pandemic. Many are suffering with out meals and feature misplaced their livelihood. Hence the authorities must remember this and offer Rs 10,000 as help to all of the tribal households.”
The Irulas, for instance, have been worried in creation paintings, accumulating and axing woods and fishing – all of that have come to a grinding halt because the pandemic, leaving the households consisting of Munuswamy's, with out livelihoods.
My spouse changed into running at many houses as a home worker, however now we do now no longer recognise while they'll name her back. Two homes known as her for paintings however others are but to. We did now no longer have meals to consume and we have been ravenous for lots days. Some humans helped us with meals,” recounts Munuswamy, who's additionally the nation workplace bearer of Tamil Nadu Tribal Association.
“We have lived in worry for the beyond forty years of dropping our houses. We will simply need to go away if the navy tells us to,” he adds.
The affiliation additionally confused at the lengthy pending call for of preventing sale of tribal humans’s lands. Boopalan says, “The authorities must reserve lands for the tribal populations beneathneath Schedule five of the Constitution. The regulation prohibits or restricts the switch of land with the aid of using or amongst individuals of the Scheduled Tribes in such an vicinity.” The affiliation moreover entreated the authorities to spend the cash allocated for the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs for the tribal humans.
Boopalan additionally raised the difficulty of put off in supplying network certificate for the humans. He said, “Some of the scholars have even needed to stop formal training because of loss of network certificate. To save you this, the Revenue District Officer must right now affirm and offer certificate. The authorities must additionally take essential steps to make the technique handy with the aid of using permitting tahsildars to difficulty certificate.”
