Human-Rights Body Seeks Relief for Starving Chakmas and Hajongs

  • Recently, a Delhi-based Human Rights body, Rights and Risks Analysis Group, has sought Prime Minister’s intervention in ensuring food for the Chakma and Hajong communities in Arunachal Pradesh who have allegedly not been included in the government’s economic package.
  • The Human Rights Organisation claims that the Chakmas and Hajongs do not have ration cards as the State government had illegally and arbitrarily seized those through an order on October 25, 1991.
  • As a result, the two communities have been forced to buy rice at ₹29 per kg while other vulnerable sections have been paying ₹5 per ....
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