Months after the President of India notified the inclusion of the Hattee community in the State’s Scheduled Tribes list, the Himachal Pradesh government on January 1 issued necessary directions to all departments for the implementation of the new classification, officials told The Hindu.
The implementation had been held up for this long over confusion in the State government as to who the Hattees of the Trans-Giri area of Sirmour district were. Given that “Hattee” is also used to describe people already classified as Scheduled Castes, the confusion was over whether these communities would now be included in the ST list as Hattees.
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