NEW DELHI: India’s powerful bureaucracy is putting up hurdles in the way of grant of a separate state of Jharkhand for the tribals of Chotta Nagpur area, according to information available here. Information is being leaked out to suggest that the Jharkhand movement leaders would have been satisfied without creating a state but for home minister’s Chavan’s
Statement at Pune early this month states that creation of Jharkhand state or the status of union territory to the region was the only options available with the Center. Officers are critical of the statement. They say that the minister is laying the foundation of trouble on the Punjab pattern, Meanwhile, India’s big business controlled media is opposed to the creation of Jharkhand state presumably because this state would make it difficult for big industrial houses to exploit the natural resources of the region without providing any benefits to the tribals,
Article extracted from this publication >> October 2, 1992
