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Separate state for tribals sought

Special Correspondent

Benefits do not reach majority of tribals: Vedika

HYDERABAD: A separate State for tribals by bringing together districts where their population is sizeableand separate courts were some of the suggestions made by the Andhra Pradesh unit of Adivasi Girijana Vidhana Vedika for the uplift of tribals.

Memo submitted

These demands were made in a memorandum submitted last month by the Andhra Pradesh Tribal Welfare Union to those concerned in New Delhi and Hyderabad. At a press meet here on Monday, its president Chanda Lingaiah Dora regretted that after 60 years of independence tribals were still denied access to drinking water, sanitation, basic education and healthcare.

He said the draft had been submitted to President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi and Governor Rameshwar Thakur and Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy in Hyderabad. There were about 60 lakh tribals in the State, with 33 sub-castes, he said. But, 89 per cent of benefits were hogged by just three sub-castes, lambadas, erukulas and yanadis,he alleged.

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