The two-day Conference of Governors also saw the President and the Prime Minister urging the Governors to ensure that common people have an affinity with the Raj Bhawans and that they should evolve an ideal model of governance in them.
The Indian Tribal reports

President Droupadi Murmu inaugurated the two-day Conference of Governors at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Friday (August 2) in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar and Home Minister Amit Shah. The Indian Tribal reports

The new dispensation of Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi recently announced the special initiative of doling out pocket money to Scheduled Tribe students to dissuade them from dropping out of school. Sandip Kumar Bal reports

As per data provided by the Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Durgadas Uikey, there are 20 slots available under National Overseas Scholarship in every selection year. The Indian Tribal reports

The quasi-judicial tribunal, headed by Jharkhand Assembly Speaker, ordered the termination of membership of the two legislators, one a tribal and another a Kurmi. Sudhir Kumar Mishra reports

Into the third term of the Modi government while the budgetary allocations for the Ministry increased by a massive 190 percent since 2014, the funds under the Development Action Plan for Scheduled Tribes (DAPST) saw a six-time increase during the same period. The Indian Tribal reports

The Union Home Minister, who was addressing BJP booth workers during his short stay in the State, also announced that if voted to power they will bring out a white paper to save tribal land. The Indian Tribal reports

The 73-year-old Paraja tribal agriculturist breathed her last at the SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack, where she was admitted a couple of days ago. The Indian Tribal reports

Incurring huge losses in cotton cultivation, more and more Adivasi families in Koraput in Odisha are now switching to lemongrass farming, which is far more profitable, writes Niroj Ranjan Misra

Even as he kept adivasis centrestage of his address during a programme of the BJP, the Assam Chief Minister and party’s co-incharge for Jharkhand applauded former CM Champai Soren’s functioning at the helm and alleged CM Hemant Soren was interested only in power and not tribal welfare. The [...]