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Q What is your reaction to the signing of the Bodo Territorial Council?

A My happiness doesn?t require any specific elaboration. The way the agreement was signed was really satisfactory.




Now we are looking forward to the formation of the interim council by next week.





Q In what way will the BTC bring about changes in the lives of the Bodos?




A We are hopeful of positive changes. Everything that has been incorporated in the council will bring about a sea-change in various aspects. The fact that the Bodo language will be incorporated in the Eighth Schedule is a landmark achievement for the...

New Delhi, Feb. 10: Union minister for the Northeast and small-scale industry C.P. Thakur today released a concept paper on human resource development in the service industry, prepared by the Mizoram government with focus on ?Employment generation and entrepreneurship.?

?This is for the first time that such an initiative has been taken to enlighten the youth of the northeastern region, particularly the youth from Mizoram, where vast opportunities exist. Human resources are among the most productive and highly-contributing sectors to economic and social progress of any country. This conclave...

New Delhi, Feb. 10: For the first time in the decadeslong history of armed struggle of the Bodo tribals in Assam, the Centre, through a memorandum of settlement (MoS), today gave constitutional recognition to a virtual Bodo homeland in the northeastern state.

This requires an amendment to the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution which will done through an enactment in Parliament. Thus the Bodo Territorial Council (BTC) gains a constitutional recognition for the first time unlike its predecessor, the now defunct Bodo Autonomous Council (BAC) which was created by an enactment of the Assam Assembly...

For the battle-weary Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT) cadre ensconced in their designated camps, the ?cause? is nearing culmination and the countdown has begun for a new ?happier, freer life?.





Ever since the ground rules of the ceasefire agreement were formulated in 2000, Bodo Liberation Tigers cadre ? numbering more than 3,000 ? have remained confined to their respective camps waiting for orders from the leadership.





?We are optimistic that this round of talks will be fruitful and the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) will materialise in the Bodo heartland,? 28-year-old Lwaba Islary of...

GUWAHATI, Feb 10 ? The signing of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) agreement among the Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT), Central government and the State Government is set to mark the beginning of an intensive agitation by non-Bodo organisations in Lower Assam. The non-Bodo organisations under the united banner ?Sanmilita-Janagosthiya Sangram Samity (SJSS)? have threatened to jeopardise creation of the BTC which they claim aimed at appeasing a section of minority Bodo community in the Lower Assam areas.

The SJSS has taken exception to the creation of the BTC by the government without...