{"id":14078,"date":"2021-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/24-02-2021\/greater-tipraland\/"},"modified":"2021-02-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T00:00:00","slug":"greater-tipraland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/24-02-2021\/greater-tipraland","title":{"rendered":"Greater Tipraland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In News: <\/strong>Tripura royal scion Pradyot Kishore Manikya has recently announced his political demand for a new state called <strong>\u2018Greater Tipraland\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Greater Tipraland\u2019<\/strong> is essentially an <strong>extension of the ruling tribal partner Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura \u2013 IPFT\u2019s demand of Tipraland,<\/strong> which sought a <strong>separate state<\/strong> for <strong>tribals of Tripura.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The new demand seeks to include every<strong> tribal person living in an indigenous area or village outside<\/strong> the <strong>Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) <\/strong>under the proposed model.<\/li>\n<li>However, the idea doesn\u2019t restrict to simply the Tripura tribal council areas but seeks to include <strong>\u2018Tiprasa\u2019 of Tripuris spread across different states of India like Assam, Mizoram etc.<\/strong> as well, even those living in<strong> Bandarban, Chittagong, Khagrachari and other bordering areas of neighbouring Bangladesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Causes for demand<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The call of <strong>Greater Tipraland\u2019 rose due to unfulfilled demands <\/strong>of <strong>revising NRC in Tripura and opposition to CAA in the past.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tripura saw turbulent violent struggles by different outlawed insurgent outfits like the <strong>Tripura National Volunteers (TNV), United Bengali Liberation Front (UBLF), National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF<\/strong>) etc. \u2013 all demanding <strong>self-determination and sovereignty, <\/strong>albeit on different e<strong>thnic and community lines.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Constitutional Provisions for the formation<\/strong> <strong>of new States<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>procedure for the formation<\/strong> of<strong> new States laid down in Article 3 <\/strong>of the Constitution provides that a <strong>State has no say over the formation of new States<\/strong> beyond communicating its <strong>views to Parliament. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0This process is called the reorganisation of the states.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The basis of reorganisation could be linguistic, religious, ethnic or administrative.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Article 3 assigns to <strong>Parliament the power to enact legislation for the formation of new States.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Parliament may create new States in a number of ways, namely by\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Separating territory from any State<\/li>\n<li>Uniting two or more States<\/li>\n<li>Uniting parts of States<\/li>\n<li>Uniting any territory to a part of any State.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Parliament\u2019s power under Article 3 extends to increasing or diminishing the area of any State and altering the boundaries or name of any State.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0A bill calling for the formation of new States may be introduced in either House of Parliament only on the recommendation of the President.<\/li>\n<li>Such a bill must be referred by the President to the concerned State Legislature for expressing its views to Parliament if it contains provisions that affect the areas, boundaries or name of that State.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reasons for the demand for new states <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Economic backwardness of sub-regions<\/strong> within large states has also emerged as an important ground on which demands for <strong>smaller states are being made<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Linguistic and cultural reasons, <\/strong>which were the primary basis for creating new states in the country, <strong>have now become secondary in most of these cases.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Issues <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Setting up various <strong>institutions, government offices, universities, hospitals<\/strong>, etc. <strong>require huge sums of money, <\/strong>therefore, the <strong>new state might end up depending <\/strong>on the <strong>Union for funds, which may or may not be available.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Different statehood may lead to the <strong>hegemony of the dominant community\/ caste\/ tribe over their power structures.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>This can lead to the emergence of intra-regional rivalries among the sub-regions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Way Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There should be certain <strong>clear-cut parameters and safeguards<\/strong> to check the <strong>unfettered demands.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>better to allow democratic concerns<\/strong> like <strong>development, decentralisation<\/strong> and <strong>governance <\/strong>rather than<strong> religion, caste, language or dialect t<\/strong>o be the valid bases for <strong>conceding the demands for a new state<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-what-is-greater-tipraland-demand-raised-by-royal-scion-pradyot-kishore-and-what-does-it-mean-for-tripura-politics-7199420\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source:IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In News: Tripura royal scion Pradyot Kishore Manikya has recently announced his political demand for a new state called \u2018Greater Tipraland\u2019. About Greater Tipraland\u2019 is essentially an extension of the ruling tribal partner Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura \u2013 IPFT\u2019s demand of Tipraland, which sought a separate state for tribals of Tripura. 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