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Roy and Williams have divided the Birhors into two groups in their study – Uthlus and Jahi. Uthlus means those who are nomadic. Local means that maintain a place in one place. In the initial period, they were identified as monkey catchers. But the forest dwindled and so did the monkeys. But the hunting tradition continues. Earlier these disums used to go out on Sendra. Disum means together and Sendra means hunting. People of two or three Tandas used to hunt collectively. Now they hunt Baser and Jhora. In Baser, five-six Birhors together enter deep inside the forest and take two to three times to return. Jhora hunting is a daily routine. In the last three decades, the Birhors of Hazaribagh have also started farming. For this, the government had provided them some land. Some Birhoras were also given houses under the Birsa Munda Awas Yojana, but this scheme also succumbed to corruption.
Describes the condition of the Parhiya tribe in Garhwa district. According to this, no one gets the primitive tribe pension. They make a living from the rice found in the ration and the mand that came with it. They do not even have enough money to buy salt along with greens.
Vishad Kumar
Although many schemes were started but did not materialise. Under the Chief Minister’s Postman Yojana, there is a system to deliver rice to the endangered tribes sitting at home. It started in 2017 but the number of beneficiaries is not taking the name of increasing. Even then this number was 73 thousand and last year also the figure was the same. On the other hand the number of primitive tribes is about three lakhs. Jharkhand’s senior journalist Vishad Kumar has made a sensational disclosure in a report written for Janchok. According to this, 35 kg of rice has to be given to the beneficiary under the Chief Minister Postman Yojana, but he gets 20 to 30 kg. In this report, he narrates the condition of the Parhiya tribe in Garhwa district. According to this, no one gets the primitive tribe pension. They make a living from the rice found in the ration and the mand that came with it. They do not even have enough money to buy salt along with greens.
Source: navbharattimes.indiatimes.com
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