Gauhati High Court Directs Mising Autonomous Council To Conduct Survey, Show How It Has Provided Relief To Economically Backward Families

The Gauhati High Court recently directed the Mising Autonomous Council (MAC) to submit before it, the decision to conduct a survey and how the MAC has provided relief to economically backward families.

The MAC is a council established to look after the affairs of the Mising people who are the second largest tribe of the region, after the Bodos, and reside in the Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Jorhat and Golaghat districts of Assam.

The said directions came in a suo moto PIL which was being heard by the division bench of Chief Justice Vijay Bishnoi and Justice Suman Shyam.

The Mising Autonomous Council (MAC) submitted an affidavit wherein it was mentioned that the Council has taken a decision to conduct a survey in each MAC Constituency to identify economically backward families and thereafter, to provide support to those families.

However, the Court observed that a copy of the said decision was not produced along with the affidavit in opposition.

“Learned counsel for the Mising Autonomous Council is directed to file further additional affidavit placing on record the copy of the decision of the Mising Autonomous Council to conduct a survey and also to detail out that when such latest survey is conducted and how the Mising Autonomous Council has provided relief to the economically backward families,” the Court directed.

The matter is listed again after four weeks.

Case Title: XXXXX v. In Re-the State of Assam & 3 Ors.

Case No.: PIL (Suo Moto)/6/2023

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