Govt working for tribal community: PM

Bhimavaram : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said his government has worked relentlessly for the welfare of the tribal community. “Our new India should be the India of their dreams in which the poor, farmers, labourers, backward, tribals have equal opportunities for all,” he said while addressing a gathering at the launch of the 125th birth anniversary celebration of freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju here Andhra Pradesh. “The tribal art and skills are getting a new identity through the Skill India Mission and ‘Vocal for Local’ is making tribal art skills a means of income,” he added. Modi said for the first time since independence, tribal museums were being set up to showcase the tribal pride and heritage in the country. An Alluri Sitarama Raju Memorial Tribal Freedom Fighters
Museum is being built in Lambasingi, Andhra Pradesh. He added that foreign rulers perpetrated maximum atrocities on the tribal community and tried to destroy their culture. “Decades old laws which prevented tribal people from cutting forest produce like bamboo, we changed them and gave them rights on forest produce,” he said. “Similarly, the number of forest products for MSP procurement increased from 12 to more than 90. More than 3,000 Van Gan Vikas Kendra and more than 50,000 Van Gana Self Help Groups are connecting tribal products and art with modern opportunities.” The Prime Minister noted that the freedom struggle was not just a history of a few years, few areas or of a few people. “History of our freedom movement is a symbol of the strength of our diversity, culture and of our unity as a nation.” The Prime Minister also paid tributes to the ‘Adivasi Parampara’ and the freedom fighter that emerged from the tradition of Andhra Pradesh .

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