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Demand for Greater Tipraland in Tripura

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    10Pointer
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    Polity & Governance
  • Published
    6th Dec, 2021

Recently, several tribal outfits in Tripura have joined hands to push their demand for a separate state called Greater Tipraland for indigenous communities in the region.

Context

Recently, several tribal outfits in Tripura have joined hands to push their demand for a separate state called Greater Tipraland for indigenous communities in the region.

What are the demands?

  • A separate state of ‘Greater Tipraland’ for the indigenous communities of the north-eastern state.
  • They want the Centre to carve out a separate state under Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution.
  • Greater Tipraland envisages a situation in which the entire Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTADC) area will be a separate state.
  • Dedicated bodies to secure the rights of the Tripuris and other aboriginal communities living outside Tripura.

What is Greater Tipraland?

  • Greater Tipraland is the extension of the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura's demand of Tipraland as a separate state for tribals. 
  • This demand is said to involve each tribe residing in the indigenous area or village outside the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council. 
  • This model is not restricted to Tripura Tribal Council Areas but also seeks to include Tiprasa of the Tripuris that are spread across Mizoram and Assam, Bandarban, Chittagong, Khagrachari too. 
  • The demand would be placed in front of the Central Government in case the leaders are invited for talks. 
    • The demand for Greater Tipraland rose as the demands for revising the NRC in Tripra were unfulfilled. Take a look at the tribes in Tripura here. 

Constitutional Provisions for new states

  • Article 2 of the Indian Constitution deals with the admission or establishment of new states.
  • Article 3 comes into play in the case of “formation of new States and alteration of areas, boundaries or names of existing States” by the Parliament.

Why did the issue come into picture?

  • Tripura was a kingdom ruled by the Manikya dynasty from the late 13th century until the signing of the Instrument of Accession with the Indian government on October 15, 1949.
  • There is an anxiety among the indigenous communities in connection with the change in the demographics of the state due to the displacements from the erstwhile East Pakistan.
  • From 63.77 per cent in 1881, the population of the tribals in Tripura was down to 80 per cent by 2011.
  • In the intervening decades, ethnic conflict and insurgency gripped the state, which shares a nearly 860-km long boundary with Bangladesh.

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