Sixth Schedule not to cover all Tribal Councils : Narah

GUWAHATI, March 26 ? Welfare of Plains Tribes & Backward Classes (WPT& BC) Minister Bharat Narah today ruled out possibility of bringing all the tribal councils in the State under the purview of the Sixth Schedule in the line of the proposed Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC). In reply to a question of Congress MLA Rajib Lochan Pegu, the Minister informed the House that the villages to be included in Mising Autonomous Council (MAC) were yet to be identified. He said that the government will start discussing the issue of identifying Mising villages to be included in the autonomous council. In reply to a supplementary query raised by AGP legislator Dilip Kumar Saikia, the Minister further informed the House that the government would take non-Mising people living in the area before deciding on villages to be included in MAC.