Seybold Report ISSN: 1533-9211
Hirakjyoti Khakhlari, Rituraj Gogoi
Vol 18, No 6 ( 2023 ) | Licensing: CC 4.0 | Pg no: 288-297 | Published on: 24-06-2023
Abstract
Bodo-Kachari is largest the scheduled tribe community in Assam, since the 1960’s these indigenous groups started movements to protect their ethnic identity, culture and social norms. This community lived in this region since ancient times and they are the son of soil in Assam state. The government provides various rights and authority through the constitution provisions, the constitution of India also gives special status to develop their socio-economic status, 2003 bodo inhabitant areas especially the district of Kokrajhar, Chirang, Baksa and Udalguri declared as Bodoland Territorial Area District (BTAD) under the 6th schedule of the constitution, every year government release millions of fund to develop their socio-economic condition. But in Assam Bodo and Kachari people also live outside the BTAD district especially they live in the Brahmaputra valley, the authority of BTAD currently known as Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) not given any importance to develop their socio-economic as well as political authority. Several years of continuous demand by the Bodo-Kachari people led to the form of the Bodo-Kachari Welfare Autonomous Council in 2020. Researchers and academicians did several numbers of research on Bodo people who lived in the BTR region, till now there is no kind of research on people who lived outside BTR specially Brahmaputra valley. This research tries to give a clear picture of the bodo-kachari people’s socio-political status in the current scenario.
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