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Laws to be translated into tribal languages

BHUBANESWAR: Close on the heels of the State Government’s decision to provide study materials for primary school students of 10 tribal communities in their own languages, the Orissa Information Commission has resolved to make available the translated version of various laws to tribal people.

Sources in the Commission revealed that it has decided to translate the laws of the land from English and Oriya into eight prominent tribal languages that includes Desia, Ho, Kuvi, Santali, Munda and Kui. With 62 tribes inhabiting the State comprising about one-fourth of its population, it has been a bane for the tribal people to use the laws drafted in English and Oriya languages under compulsion, the official pointed out and added that this makes a large chunk of the uneducated population vulnerable to exploitation by the unscrupulous middlemen in legal system and administrative set up as well. The Commission feels that the people have the right to have access to the information on policies, programmes, laws, rules and regulations in their own languages, added the sources.

AThe State level apex agencies involved in tribal welfare would be roped in to translate the materials.

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