If you guys Charmas are veru educated, then it is better to go to your villages, educate your people, and check with your autonomous council Leaders and encourage your leadership to stop corruption (Many of your leaders are investing in large sum of Money in mutal funds) but to encaurage their people to take at least certain nutrition from aganwadi. unless your children get good food, you remain backward all the time. As far as i see with my own eyes your leaders are enjoying too much of the ignorance of your people.Insteand of cribing all the time agains the Mizos, who give you Autonomous Copuncil. See the status of your brother in bangaldesh and Arunachal. At least Mizoram Congress is kind enough to give Autonomous Council for you

i am studying in tata institute of social sciences, mumbai in a under graduate social work courses. i m selected for student exchange programme with victoria university, melbourne for my final and last semester. society, structure, culture and change is one of my favourite paper in the course. i studied about tribes, schedule tribes, nomadic tribe and so on. i personally worked with maharashtrian nomadic tribe called "Pardy" who do not even have universal adult franchise right and they are the one who first started to fight against the british and they branded them as thief and they are still called and treated as thief by the Indians. (?). in our campus there are many tribals student and students from northeast. in my class or even in college i always felt respected as being the chakma as i do have our own chakma scripts which no one have.. even though there are mizo scripts but it is english script. the characteristics, feature and nature of a tribe even though has been describe differently by different scholars and social scientist but i observed and felt that there is a need for dept study those who want to use the words nomadic tribe.it is an insult to the chakma and excuse for the questions of development in the chakmas and brus villages or communities.those who describe the chakma as nomadic tribe they are very narrow and discriminative in nature. infact the chakmas in bangladesh major occupation is not Jhum cultivation. i hope we all together can make mizoram one of the most developed, prosperious and peaceful state in the country. so should not focuss on this kind of narrow, cheap, discriminative and excuse nature which will lead to no one good.

What I wanted to say in this small article of mine is that when both Mizos and Chakmas are engaged in primitive Jhum cultivation in Mizoram, why only the Chakmas have been levelled by the state govt or its agencies as "primitive and nomadic tribe" but not the Mizos? And, why SSA cannot reach to the Chakmas when it reached to the Mizo jhum cultivatorss? What Mr Zohmingmawia, who I understand is the Joint Editor of Evening Post, a very respected news day in Mizoram, says here in defence is not convincing. As I mentioned in the article, senior SSA official Robert Romawia Royte in February 2008 reportedly stated that Chakmas were "nomads". In the very recent report by the Mizoram Education Dept (as reported in the national media like Hindu and HT) calls the Chakmas and Brus "primitive and nomads" because they practise Jhum cultivation. I again ask, why Mizos (there are more Jhum cultivators among Mizos than Chakmas) are not nomads and primitive as well if measured on the parameters of jhum cultivation. The problems of SSA raised by me in the article have not been refuted by any body.