‘Tribal issues need greater attention’
The Hindu
Legal awareness programme appeal to district administration
The Principal District and Sessions Judge M.L. Raghunath called for greater attention to issues and problems plaguing the adivasi communities in rehabilitation centres.
He was speaking here on Sunday at a Pan India Legal Awareness and Outreach Campaign with focus on creating legal awareness among the tribal communities. The programme was organised by the District Legal Services Authority, District Administration, Bar Association and other departments.
Mr. Raghunath said issues plaguing the tribal communities who have been relocated from the forests and rehabilitated in various places, have come to light in recent times. Though the authorities promise land and hold out assurance at the time of relocation, the land promised to them is never identified or shown to the beneficiaries.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.