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Patthalgarhi strikes Maharashtra, warns visitors about scheduled area

The signboards in these areas say that the laws made by parliament and state assembly are not valid here.

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Patthalgarhi strikes Maharashtra, warns visitors about scheduled area

Patthalgarhi movement that was last year witnessed in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh has now reached to tribal-dominated villages in Dahanu taluka of Palghar district, on the Maharashtra-Gujarat border. The signboards in these areas say that the laws made by parliament and state assembly are not valid here.

The signboards are titled Bharatiya Samvidhan – Panchvi Anusuchit Kshetra (Constitution of India – Fifth Schedule Area). The article 244 of the Indian constitution is related to control of tribal-dominated areas under the fifth schedule thereby warning the visitors about being in a restricted area.

According to the article 19 (5) of the Indian constitution, no person outside the scheduled area except the scheduled tribes are allowed to move freely, reside permanently or do any business. While on the contrary, Article 19 (1) (d) and (e) of the Constitution gives every citizen the right to “move freely, to “reside and settle in any part of the territory of India”, that is an exception to Article 19 (5).

Villages under Chikhale gram panchayat in Dahanu taluka in Maharashtra were the first to put up such signboards.

 The Chikhale gram panchayat office-bearers have said in an interaction with police that “some of the information on the signboards is inaccurate and not in accordance with Constitutional provisions”. They have agreed to change this, after getting a resolution passed by the gram panchayat.

Government sources reveal, “no untoward incident had been reported as a result of the signboards, but the villagers would be asked to remove “misleading” information. They said an investigation was underway to assess how this “misleading” information reached the villagers.

Last year during the Patthalgarhi movement, several villages of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh put up similar messages inscribed on stone slabs, seeking to declare the supremacy of the gram sabha while asking the government to stay away from the matter And in December last year, similar boards came up in Waki area as well.

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