Justice for Oraon Tribe

Continuing our support to the Oraon tribe, we approached ‘Tribal Welfare department, Government of West Bengal’, Urban Land Reforms department, Government of West Bengal and ‘Calcutta Municipal Corporation’. We fought for establishing the land right of the tribe and sidewise started educating the whole family of the tribes so that they become self-dependent. Night school was started for the elder members with the help of eminent local people, senior citizens and some Community Based Organisations (CBO). Once the mothers of the kids understood the value of education, they started sending their children to the school.

Apart from educating the Oraon tribe of Naktala, we also worked on their healthy sanitation process and managed safe drinking water facility, ration card, voter card and birth certificate. Finally in 1998, all our efforts were paid in the form of the tribe getting their land right. It was a great victory for the organisation also as it has been the motivation behind its coming into existence. Now, the Oraon tribes of the locality are secured socially and financially as they were trained in various handicraft works and some have gone out for work. Even their kids are regular to schools and very much part of the civil society. 

It was a satisfaction that cannot be described in words. We are just happy to see them secured socially and financially and living their life like any other member of the socitey.