Adivasi Thank AP CM For Job Quota To Tribal People
Farmers have weaned themselves away from traditional paddy and have started growing coffee and pepper: Ramarao Dora ( District convener of Joint Action Committee (JAC) for Adivasi unions and federations )
VISAKHAPATNAM: Adivasi across the state have expressed happiness over Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s announcement at the World Indigenous Day on Saturday that an alternative to GO 3 will be brought in to give 100 per cent reservation to tribal people in teachers posts in agency areas.
District convener of Joint Action Committee (JAC) for Adivasi unions and federations Ramarao Dora said he, along with other leaders, had submitted a memorandum to the CM before the latter addressed the meeting at Paderu.
They requested the Chief Minister to bring out a special GO to provide Adivasi 100 per cent of teacher jobs in the Fifth Schedule areas. The leaders further asked Chandrababu Naidu to reserve some jobs in the Mega DSC exclusively for tribal people.
Dora said the CM responded positively saying after overcoming legal hurdles on the matter, the state government would bring out an alternative to GO 3 for total reservation for tribal people in posting of teachers in agency areas.
The JAC district convener, however, said they are upset with Girijan Cooperative Corporation for proposing to set up a coffee processing unit in Narsipatnam in Anakapalli district at an estimated cost of ₹500 crore.
He asserted that the GCC should shift the unit to Paderu, Araku or Ananthagiri, where the Araku coffee is actually grown.
Dora said farmers have weaned themselves away from traditional paddy and have started growing coffee and pepper. If the coffee processing unit is set up in their backyard, it would help them financially.
