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How Meenas got ST status TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2007 01:38:36 AM] NEW DELHI: A simple comma changing the entire profile of a community! It may sound unbelievable, but this is what happened in the report of the National SC/ST Commission, set up in 1954, which saw the Meenas, a rich land-owning community mainly inhabiting the western districts of Rajasthan, being conferred the ST status. The commission wanted to recommend ST status to 'Bhil Meenas', a community dotting the south-eastern parts of Rajasthan and adjoining areas in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. However, the printed version of the report, by mistake advocated granting ST status to "Bhil, Meenas". Thus Meenas were also inducted into the ST list. And now, having cornered a lion's share of the government jobs reserved for the tribals, they are, not surprisingly, up in arms against the proposal to facilitate the migration of Gurjars from the list of OBCs to STs in the state.
