Parliament has approved the according of Constitutional Scheduled Tribal status to certain tribes in the North-eastern states of Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh.
The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill 2011 seeks to give Scheduled Tribes status to six communities of Manipur and substitute the name of one in the list of Arunachal Pradesh.
In his reply to the brief debate in the Rajya Sabha, Union Tribal Affairs Minister Shri V. Kishore Chandra Deo said the Bill to amend the original Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950 meets a long-standing demand.
Communities like Rongmei, input, Liangmai, Zemi, Thangal And Mate of Manipur will get tribal status once the bill, ultimately becomes law in due course. Along with this, Galong which is a Distorted version of the original word galo gets corrected. The State Government had been recommending change in the Nomenclature for a long time.
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