Guwahati, May 18: Assam government would contact the Centre on the matter of granting Scheduled Caste status to the adivasi community in the state. Addressing a rally of adivasis here, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said the government would take all steps to consider the demand of the adivasis and other backward communities of the state for Scheduled Caste status.
For this, however, the Centre has to be contacted and the necessary work done, the chief minister said. Gogoi said the government was taking all steps to solve the plight of the adivasis and other members of the backward communities.
The chief minister said the matter of getting SC status to adivasis was likely to be discussed in the next cabinet meeting of the government. Bureau Report