ORGI is the competent authority to determine if a community is as per its yardstick for listing as Schedule Tribe,” the report states. The tribal status demand is a burning issue in the hills and the Centre had formed the committee in 2016 when Bengal was going to Assembly polls. In the past three years, the committee was reconstituted thrice and the final report was compiled by a team headed by M.R. The committee has stated it received a 2014 report on the rejection of claims of instant (11) communities only. ORGI is the competent authority to determine if a community is as per its yardstick for listing as Schedule Tribe,” the report states.

Source: The Telegraph October 21, 2019 20:03 UTC