BTC formation: Cabinet panel for give-and-take policy

GUWAHATI, Dec 1 ? The meeting of the State Cabinet sub-committee on Bodo affairs today decided to adopt a give-and-take policy on the matter of including additional villages in the proposed Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), reports PTI. The committee which met here tonight under the chairmanship of Health Minister Dr Bhumidhar Barman decided that both the government and the Bodoland Liberation Tiger (BLT) should adopt a give-and-take policy and mutual understanding if the BTC boundary problem was to be solved. The BLT, now on ceasefire with the government, has demanded 93 additional villages in the BTC area but the government was reluctant in view of the less than half of non-Bodo population in the said villages. Convenor of Cabinet sub-committee of Bodo affairs and senior Minister Bharat Narah told PTI that today?s meeting concentrated on ways to find an amicable solution to the Bodo problem and decided to adopt a give-and-take policy. He hoped that the BLT would reciprocate and help in finding a permanent solution to the vexed issue. Narah said the committee was awaiting the response of the BLT on the issue after which a final decision would be taken.