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Parliament may soon empower NE tribal ADCs
Nagaland Post | IANS | Agartala, Jul 27
entral government would soon move a constitution amendment bill in parliament to delegate more powers to the tribal autonomous councils in the northeast, Tripura Tribal Welfare Minister Aghore Debbarma said here Friday. There are 16 tribal autonomous district councils (ADCs) in the northeast, facilitating the rights of governance to local bodies by the tribals, who constitute 27 percent of the region’s 40.55 million people.
Of the 16 autonomous councils, six are in Manipur, three each in Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram, and one in Tripura.
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