A proposed bill seeking equal rights to belongings for girls in Arunachal Pradesh has refreshed the call for policy to protect the indigenous groups from kids of non-locals “fraudulently availing rights” withinside the call of the State’s Scheduled Tribes. The Arunachal Pradesh State Commission for Women on August 23 stated it had submitted a draft suggestion for the Arunachal Pradesh Marriage and Inheritance of Property Bill, 2021.
“We have acquired memorandums from diverse businesses to scrap sections of the draft suggestion. It is now as much as the State authorities to take a call,” the panel stated in a statement. The clauses pertain to the movable and immovable belongings enjoyed by an Arunachal Pradesh Scheduled Tribe (APST) girl married to a non-APST man.
While strain mounted at the panel to remove the 2 clauses, the All Arunachal Pradesh Students’ Union (AAPSU) resented the “inordinate delay” via way of means of the authorities in publishing the draft suggestion referring to the existing system of issuing APST certificate to the offspring of non-APST guys and APST girls. The draft at the offspring issue turned into to had been published 18 months ago.
The AAPSU and different tribe-primarily based students’ bodies met Alo Libang, the State’s Minister for Social Justice, Empowerment and Tribal Affairs, and demanded the early tabling of the Bill withinside the 60-member Assembly.
“The loss of any functioning law to check the offspring of tribal girls married to non-APST guys fraudulently availing rights withinside the call of APST poses a top-notch danger to tribal society and the union will now no longer tolerate an in addition delay,” AAPSU president Hawa Bagang stated. The first assembly of a high-power committee set up for the difficulty turned into held in February 2020.