{"id":231896,"date":"2023-12-31T22:35:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T17:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=231896"},"modified":"2023-12-31T22:36:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T17:06:08","slug":"tribal-council-urges-tripura-guv-to-clear-pending-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/12\/31\/tribal-council-urges-tripura-guv-to-clear-pending-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribal council urges Tripura guv to clear pending bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>AGARTALA, 31 Dec:<\/strong> Tipra Motha-run Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) has sought Governor Indrasena Reddy Nallu&#8217;s intervention to clear bills awaiting approval at the Raj Bhavan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are currently six bills, including some customary laws passed by the state&#8217;s lone tribal council, awaiting approval from the Raj Bhavan, officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We had a productive meeting today with the governor at the TTAADC conference. This was his first visit to the autonomous district council headquarters, and we discussed some important issues with him,&#8221; chief executive member (CEM) Purna Chandra Jamatia told PTI on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jamatia said that the executive council urged the governor to clear the pending bills. &#8220;We urged the governor to expedite the approval process, so that the tribal council can make progress,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We also raised the issue of financial constraints faced by the autonomous district council, which covers two-thirds of the state&#8217;s geographical area,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The council had approved a budget of Rs 1,135 crore for the year 2023-&#8217;24, but we only received Rs 450 crore from the state government, leading to financial constraints,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asserting that the TTAADC spends Rs 689 crore annually to cover employee and pensioner expenses, the CEM said that the council has requested the governor&#8217;s intervention to secure an additional Rs 450 crore to cover expenses for the remaining months of the current fiscal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We also requested the governor to allocate funds to the tribal council under two separate categories: committed expenditure, and development activities. Insufficient funds have negatively impacted development projects in the tribal council,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jamatia said that the executive council urged the governor to hand over nine departments to the TTAADC administration for effective functioning and monitoring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the meeting, the council demanded immediate elections to village committees (similar to gram panchayats) as the absence of elected bodies is hindering development work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jamatia added that the governor attentively listened to the issues raised by the executive council and assured them that he would address the matters with the appropriate authorities. 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There are currently six bills, including some customary laws passed by the state&#8217;s lone tribal council, awaiting approval from the Raj Bhavan, officials said. &#8220;We had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-231896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}