L.K. SARKAR WITH SANTAL TRIBAL STUDENTS OF AYODHYAY HILL OF PURULIA, W.B.

L.K.  SARKAR WITH SANTAL TRIBAL STUDENTS OF AYODHYAY HILL OF PURULIA, W.B.

L.K. Sarkar with Santal tribal students of Ayodhya Hill who are staying and studying in Bagmundi Kalyan Ashram.

From left standing backside Hiralal laya, Jadunath Tudu, Haridas Roy (Charida village) Ramsing Murmu, Nagranjan Ganguli (Teacher), Arabinda Bhattacharya (Teacher),  Middle standing – Umesh Mandi (Balarampur Kalyan Ashram, L.K. Sarkar, Binod Behari Murmu, Nagen Besra.

In front, Kinkar Mandi, Na Sibankar Singh Sardar, Chakradhar Saren. 

In the year 1982, L.K. Sarkar went to see how the tribal peoples are living on Ayodha Hill forest areas.

At that time,  no conveyance available to go upstairs on Ayodha Hill L.K. Sarkar by walking went on that hill.

A residential poor tribal education center whose name is Baghmundi Kalyan Ashram situated on the road side.  On the way to go to Ayodha Hill, L.K. Sarkar and his wife Dr. Srabani Chakraborty to collect information about Kalyan Ashram, Mr. Sarkar met some tribal students.

Pictures shown, these students are now scattered in different sectors.

Hiralal Laya is now working at a Refugee Relief Camp Commission, Camac Street, Kolkata.  Umesh Mandi and Kinkar Mandi are working at Balarampur Kalyan Ashram.  Sibshankar Singh Sardar is a teacher at Murshidabad.  Binodbehari Murmu is an assistant CDPO, ICDS, Khatra, Bankura.

Binod behari Murmu is the exceptional student of them.  L.K. Sarkar recently written an article about Binod Behari Murmu.  Published this article on ‘Jangal Mahaler Khabar’ in the issue of July 1, 2003.

L.K. SARKAR WITH SABAR COMMUNITIES

We are all aware that the Sabar Tribe are rare and primitive tribe (called as Born Criminal) of our state.  They need special care from every corner of our society.

L.K. Sarkar want to change the lifestyle and do uplift their quality of life through greater awareness about health, education, value system, government schemes for development, income generation programmes etc.

L.K. Sarkar through his organization Khatra Adibasi Culture and Development Center, conducted 2 days programme under sponsorship by Central Board for Workers Education, Ministry of Labor, Government of India, at Baroda Sabar Colony Primary School on 11-11-02 to 12-11-02.

S.D.O. Satadal Dutta inaugurated the 2-day program.

REMARKABLE SUCCESSFUL ACHIEVEMENTS

Sushil Mahali, a tribal boy, turn his life from bamboo basket maker to journalist and social worker

By  L.K. Sarkar.

If you have no idea about Mahali tribes, you could not realize that what L.K. Sarkar wants to say about Sushil Mahali? So, first you know that Mahali Samaj, then to Sushil Mahali.

Mahali, a Dravidian caste of laborer, palanquin bearers, and workers in bamboo found in Chotanagpur and West Bengal.  They are divided into 5 subcaste –

1.     Bansphor Mahali – who make baskets and do all kinds of bamboo work;

2.      Patar Mahali – Basket makers and cultivators;

3.      Sulunki Mahali – who are cultivators and labourers;

4.      Tanti Mahali – who carry palanquins;

5.      Mahali Munda – a small outlying subcaste.

 Those of the Santals seem to warranty the conjecture that the main body of the caste, that is to say the group comprising the Bansphor, Sulunki and Tanti Mahalis is merely a branch of the Santals, separated at a comparatively recent date from the parent tribe.