Kamal Kumar Biswas.TOD.Balurghat
Members of the Bedia community gathered in Gopalbati on Sunday for the district general meeting of the Bedia Social Association, where leaders renewed their demand for access to government benefits available to recognized tribal groups.
Along with residents from the community, leaders of the Dakshin Dinajpur unit of the Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi organization were present at the meeting, underscoring a broader effort to build support around the issue.Ganesh Chandra Mahato, the district secretary of the association, said a survey would be conducted to determine how many people belonging to the Mahato, or Bedia, community live in the district. The findings, he said, would be submitted to the district administration.
“Our demand is that the Bedia community should receive the same government facilities that other Adivasi communities are entitled to,” Mr. Mahato said.
A resolution backing that demand was adopted at the meeting, he added, and a deputation to the administration would be organized soon to press for action.
For many in attendance, the gathering was as much about visibility as it was about paperwork — an attempt to ensure that their numbers, and their claims, are formally recorded as political activity intensifies across the region.
Along with residents from the community, leaders of the Dakshin Dinajpur unit of the Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi organization were present at the meeting, underscoring a broader effort to build support around the issue.Ganesh Chandra Mahato, the district secretary of the association, said a survey would be conducted to determine how many people belonging to the Mahato, or Bedia, community live in the district. The findings, he said, would be submitted to the district administration.
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