Detect people with fake tribal names, certificates

Raising the issue of persons using names similar to tribals or adiviasis or fake certificates to avail benefits, the Eklavya Sanghatana, Maharashtra protested and demanded that such irregularities be checked.

About 700 tribals from Nashik took out a rally under the leadership of Shivaji Dhawale, founder president of Eklavya Sanghatana and staged a protest on Monday.

Submitting a memorandum, the tribals agitating on the issue of fake identity of non-tribals as tribals, demanded that the government must check all those who have obtained a caste certificate as tribals.

Such persons who are in government jobs should be suspended and those truly eligible must be given the posts. The government should form a committee with a retired justice as its head and find out such fake tribals, the group demanded.