NEW DELHI: The Home Ministry has drafted a model on the basis of recommendations made by five governmental experts on Jharkhand which envisages setting up an autonomous Jharkhand region comprising 13 districts of Bihar’s Chhotanagpur and Santhal Pragana on the pattern of the Gorkhaland Hill Council with specific administrative and executive powers to govern the region.
A two-day crucial meeting concluded here on Jan 16 between the home ministry and the leaders of various Jharkhand and other national parties in an effort to reach a consensus solution to the Jharkhand tangle by Jan 26 next.
The minister of state for home Subodh Kant Sahay held final round of discussions with various parties separately too likely to list their views for an expeditious solution to the current Jharkhand impasse.
The three governmental experts and two Jharkhandi academicians the Ranchi university vice chancellor Amar Kumar Singh and the former Ranchi University Vice Chancellor Ray Dayal Munda -were nominated by the center’s committee on Jharkhand matters (COJM) which presented its report to the center on May 14 last.
The expert committee rejected the demand of a statehood and uncounted its report to the center on May 14 last.
The expert committee rejected the demand of a statehood and union territory in the initial draft official sources said here.
After obtaining a report from the Bihar government the proposed model has provided effective powers to the proposed autonomous Jharkhand region for meeting the just aspirations of the people within the constitutional fates work
Article extracted from this publication >> January 25, 1991
