ADIVASI MAHASABHA

                                           
                                                            ADIVASI MAHASABHA
  The All India Adivasi Mahasabha, on the first day of its three-day long conference at New Delhi Talkotora Indoor stadium on Monday 28th March,2011. The conference stressed the need to unite the diverse tribal communities from across the country to gain a voice in Delhi, as a starting point to controlling their own destinies- and their land, water and forests.
  In his speech, Meghalaya Governor R.S Mossahary told delegates " Let us unite all tribal groups so that we can compete-this is a competitive world" calling on the creamy layer in the tribal community to understand the aspirations of those less fortunate, he asked them to help fight poverty and illiteracy.
   He said poor administration and corruption in parts of the country had created Maoists, he said" you may be fighting for a good cause but you cannot get any where by killing innocents.Ina democracy, the solutions must come from the peaceful exercise of people's power look at the example of egypt. Referring to the Indian constitution, he said" The Indian constitution is a flexible document-short of independence you can get virtually any thing.
   The conference will focus on issues related to land laws and land alienation, development induced displacement, forest and encroachment and eviction, extremism in Adivasi area, poverty and migration among others. It also plans to look at the different laws enacted in the country for the welfare of the tribal' s and decide how to take advantage of laws such as the Right to information's.

                                 Prof. John Kurakar