Human Chain in Dinajpur
Indigenous people of plain land place 3-pt demand
People of the ethnic communities of plain land in Dinajpur form a human chain in the town yesterday to realise their 3-point demand, including a separate land commission. Photo: Focus Bangla
The ethnic people yesterday formed a human chain in front of deputy commissioner's office to press home their three-point demand, including formation of a separate land commission for them. Several hundred people from different upazilas of Dinajpur, Thakurgaon and Panchagarh districts took part in the programme organised by Dinajpur unit of Jatiya Adivasi Parishad (JAP). The other demands include freeing their lands from encroachers and halting drive to evict them from their ancestral land in the name of afforestation. Speakers at the programme urged the government to form a separate land commission for indigenous people of plain land immediately. At least 1.5 million Adivasi people living in north-western region of the country were being deprived of their social and economic rights for the last four decades, they alleged. They also said that temple, graveyard and arable lands belonging to the indigenous people were also grabbed by encroachers. They called for the prime minister's intervention to protect the land right of the ethnic people. Among others, Shital Mardi and Rabin Memram, president and general secretary of JAP respectively, also spoke. Later, they submitted a memorandum to the DC in favour of their demands.
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