Adivasi Seek Implementation of for Scheduled Area Employment Act
Workshop tomorrow at Paderu to dwell on G.O. 3 in this regard
Visakhapatnam: VAP’s Tribal Welfare department is organising a workshop on G.O. No. 3 in Paderu on Tuesday, July 22, in which all stakeholders, including the Adivasi, will participate.
The workshop comes in the wake of Supreme Court striking down G.O. No. 3, which facilitated 100 per cent reservation for the tribal in government teachers posts in scheduled areas.
Tribal Welfare director Sada Bhargavi will preside over the workshop.
In the run up to the workshop, Andhra Pradesh Adivasi JAC district chairman Rama Rao Dora, meanwhile, has demanded that state government fulfil the promise made by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu to Adivasi that his government is committed to providing 100 per cent reservation to STs living in scheduled areas.
Dora wanted enactment of the “Scheduled Area Employment Act” based on the Fifth Scheduled Area special acts. He underlined that teachers’ posts announced in the Mega DSC should be filled with scheduled tribe candidates in the local area. “The Scheduled Area Employment Act on job recruitment is not merely the demand of Adivasi, it emanates from the Indian Constitution,” Dora pointed out.
The AP Adivasi JAC district chairman recalled that in 1986, late chief minister N.T. Rama Rao got issued G.O. No. 275 to eliminate inequalities faced by the Scheduled Area Tribes in the united Andhra Pradesh in social, economic, educational and employment sectors. Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu subsequently issued G.O. No. 3 in this regard.
Dora underlined that it is the legal responsibility of governments to protect the livelihoods of tribal peoples in scheduled areas and uplift them in accordance with the protection norms within Paragraphs 5(1) and 5(2) of the Fifth Schedule in accordance with Article 244(1) of the Constitution.
The JAC district chairman demanded that to preserve the spirit of G.O. No. 3, a comprehensive law must be enacted to reserve all local cadre posts for local tribal people, with 50 per cent reservation in zonal cadre posts and 30 per cent reservation in state cadre posts.
