Secure Jharkhand � The Indian Tribal

The Indian Tribal18 Mar, 2023News

Though Jharkhand was a part of Bihar until 2000, many had seen a need for separate statehood even before Independence. The demand to separate the Chhotanagpur-Santhal Pargana belt was first made by Christian missionaries through a memorandum to the Simon Commission in 1928, which was turned down. ?The church always supported a separate Jharkhand for better integrated growth of this area. We also approached the Simon Commission on this issue,? says Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas of Ranchi Archdiocese.