Tribal body hails Jharkhand govt's senior citizen scheme from

Hailing the Jharkhand government for launching 'Mukyamantri Teerth Darshan Yojana' providing opportunity to senior citizens from Below Poverty Line (BPL) families to make pilgrimage, a social organization of tribals today urged Jharkhand Tourism Minister Amar Bauri to make a similar arrangement for their community members.
In a letter to Bauri here today, President of Adivasi Suraksha Parishad, Ramesh Hansdah urged the minister to make similar arrangement for the poor tribals, who could not even visit the places of their ancestors owing to financial hardship.
Hansdah also referred to some important places of worship and birth places of great tribal leaders, which, he claimed, were of no less importance than a place of pilgrimage.

Hansda, who is also the President of All India Santali Film Association (AISFA) and an Executive committee member of BJP's state unit, named the places such as Luguburu, Lalpania, which are Santal community's places of religious importance in Bokaro district.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das along with Bauri, who was in the steel city here, was scheduled to flag off the 2nd batch of pilgrims comprising 1000 senior citizens of BPL families, who were to undertake pilgrimage to Puri free of cost under the Teerth Darshan Yojana of the government, later in the day from Tatanagar station today.