Question

`Lambada` tribe is having conflict with adivasi in Telangana forest . find out the reason behind it and spread some light on the tribe' s life style tradition and culture . draw pictures to make it engrossing​

Answer 1

There is a simmering conflict between the Adivasi tribes in Telangana and the Lambadas, also known as Lambadis and Banjaras, primarily over share of government benefits. The Adivasis claim that the Lambadas do not qualify as a Scheduled Tribe because the process of their inclusion in the ST list in 1976 was incomplete. Though the government has not admitted to the charge of lopsided development, the aboriginal people claim they have been overlooked in employment and education.

For example, the Tudum Debba, an Adivasi organisation, alleges that the Lambadas bagged 400 of the 405 posts of teachers in Khammam district, the recruitment having been done through the District Selection Committee in 2012. In undivided Adilabad district, nearly 45% of the 2,800 posts of teachers are filled with Lambadas though the share of the plains tribe is 22% of the population as per the 2011 census.

The Adivasis claim there are only nine aboriginal tribes in the State, incorporated through Article 342: Koya, Gond (or Raj Gond), Konda Reddi, Chenchu, Pardhan, Kolam, Naikpod, Thotti and Mannewars. The inclusion of the Lambadas in the list of Scheduled Tribes in 1976 was done through an ordinance. Under an order of the State government (G.O. Ms. 149 dated May 3, 1978), issued in the then composite Andhra Pradesh, the Telangana Lambadas were identified as a plains tribe with reservation restricted to education. It is, however, since last November that the conflict took the shape of non-cooperation, with the Adivasis preventing the Lambada teachers from attending to duties in the schools run by the Tribal Welfare Department and refusing to work the fields of the Lambadas.