Demand to form a village chieftain council at Santal Pargana level through dharna

Dumka. A dharna programme was organised on behalf of Village Pradhan-Manjhi organisation and a memorandum was submitted to the Commissioner on behalf of the Governor to determine the local policy and planning policy at the Santal Pargana level on the basis of Ganger Khatian of 1932 and to strengthen the Pradhani system at the Santal Pargana level but a strong demand arose for formation of a Village Head Council. Along with this, there was a demand that revenue collection should be done offline as before through the Village Head and online revenue collection should be stopped, along with an adequate amount for development at the village level, appropriate powers should be given to the Gram Sabha. At the same time, in Santal Pargana division, under the project “Water for all fields, work for all”, water for irrigation is being supplied through pipelines from the Ganga river and all the village heads and accountants are being provided with life insurance and health insurance of Rs 10 lakh by the Jharkhand government. A demand was made to ensure the insurance. On the occasion, Divisional President Bhim Prasad Mandal, Shripati Kumar Mandal, Nepal Raut, Gajo Kunwar, Lakshmi Kumari, Pran Dhan Mahato, Arjun Rai, Ajit Kumar Mishra, Nirmal Rakshit, Rajendra Marik, Haradhan Rai, Rusoram Baski, English Lal Marandi, Surendra Kumar Rai, Bhim Soren, Arjun Rai, Anil Hembram, Shankar Murmu, Mukesh Kumar Mishra etc. were present.

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