Ethnic populace in 2022 evaluation: Genuine picture not reflected

  Ethnic populace in 2022 evaluation: Genuine picture not reflected 

By Rahat Uddin Jewel from Bangladesh

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Native pioneers and scientists have scrutinized the exactness of ethnic populace information displayed in the most recent evaluation report and said the genuine figure would be a lot higher.

The Populace Statistics 2022 found just 16,50,159 ethnic local area individuals - - 824,751 guys and 825,408 females - - living in Bangladesh. In any case, native freedoms activists guarantee the number would be something like 30 lakh.In the statistics of 2011, the ethnic local area populace was 15,86,141 - - 7,97,477 guys and 7,88,664 females - - which represented 1.10 percent of the nation's absolute populace. According to the most recent statistics, the quantity of ethnic populace has expanded by just 64 thousand over the most recent 11 years.

Take the instance of the Garo (Mandi) people group. In the most recent evaluation, the quantity of Garo individuals is just 76,846.

Sajeeb, who has a place with this local area, refered to a 2016 government distribution of Global Mother Language Foundation which referenced the Garo populace as 68,210 of every 1991 and 84,565 out of 2011.

The most recent evaluation specifies the quantity of Santal individuals to be just 1,29,049. Be that as it may, the local area pioneers guarantee their populace wouldn't be under five lakh in the entire country as Santal individuals are dissipated in every one of the northern areas and they additionally live in Sylhet district.

Banglapedia, the public reference book of Bangladesh, refering to a gauge made by Christian evangelists during the 1980s, said the Santal populace in northern Bangladesh was more than 100,000. As indicated by the 1991 evaluation, the Santal populace was north of 200,000.

"Yet, our populace wouldn't be under five lakh. At first, the public authority changed the name from Adivasi to little ethnic networks, and presently they are purposefully lessening the number," said Rabindra Nath Soren, leader of Bangladesh Adivasi Parishad and individual from Santal people group.

Native pioneers and analysts claimed that a large number of their networks live in the distant regions and the information gatherers didn't visit their towns and families. Accordingly, the evaluation didn't track down the real populace information.

Without precedent for the country, the evaluation was led utilizing modified Tablet laptops and PC Helped Individual Meeting (CAPI) strategy - - an eye to eye information assortment technique - - and the information of 50 unique ethnic networks living across Bangladesh were shown independently in the report.

Philip Gain of Society for Climate and Human Turn of events (SEHD), who has for some time been exploring on native individuals, said the information of this evaluation report is clearly sketchy. In 1991, the Santal people group was multiple lakh and presently they have carried the number down to 1.29 lakh.

The 23 little ethnic networks living in tea homes of Sylhet locale were not as expected canvassed in the evaluation, he added.

Mesbah Kamal, specialist and history teacher at Dhaka College, said the public authority has referenced names of 50 ethnic networks - - which is a welcome move.

"And yet, the report isn't adequate as it was ready without drawing in ethnic local area pioneers. It occurred because of precise blemishes. I propose leading a unique populace enumeration for little ethnic networks to figure out the genuine number," he said.

Gaurango Patro, leader of Patro Somproday Kaylan Parishad, a relationship of Patro people group, told this reporter that the enumeration information authorities didn't come to their home.

"Then on the last day, I, at the end of the day, called them and gave them data. As per our own review of 2020, the quantity of Patro families in Bangladesh was 705 and the all out number of individuals 3,999 - - guys 2076 and females 1,923."

However, the enumeration report says the number of inhabitants in Patro people group is 3,100, he added.

Bivuti Bhuson Mahato, head of Bangladesh Bedia Mahato Youth Net, told this reporter that Bedia Mahato individuals live in 41 towns in the country. "Our populace will be 14,000 to 15,000 as indicated by our own study. Yet, the evaluation referenced it's just 7,207."

Ridesh Mudi, the head educator of Malnichhara Tea Nursery Grade School in Sylhet, said there are north of 500 groups of an ethnic gathering called Kora in Dinajpur and furthermore in 26 tea gardens in Sylhet division.

"Our populace would be around 2,000. In any case, the evaluation shows just 816," he said.

Parimal Singh Baraik, leader of Cha Jonogosthi Adivasi Front, said 83 Gurkha families, prominently known as Nepalis, live in Bandarban and tea nurseries of Sylhet, Moulvibazar and Habiganj.

"Yet, in the 2022 statistics, the Gurkha populace is just 100," he said.

Pius Nanuar, a Kharia social dissident who led a concentrate on the number of inhabitants locally in mid 2020, told this journalist that they found around 5,700 Kharia individuals in 41 towns of Sylhet division.

Yet, in the 2022 evaluation, the Kharia populace is just 3,099. "Nobody came to count me or take any data about me."

Slam Papangg, who participated in a field-level populace review in Kormodha Association in Moulvibazar's Kulaura upazila, said just three towns in far off regions were not overviewed. "Afterward, individuals of native griped. Then, at that point, on the last day, I proceeded to direct the review."

Ripon Banerjee, populace enumeration boss of Rajghat association in Sreemangal, said a few information gatherers didn't utilize the "ancestral choice" on their gadgets to "stay safe".

Dr Dipankar Roy, specialized top of the most recent evaluation project, said a registration isn't an assessment. "Activists might express a ton of things; they might gauge any number freely. Yet, the enumeration report depends on raw numbers," he added.

"Many assessed that the all out populace of the nation would be 18 crore or 20 crore, however the enumeration didn't mirror that. We tracked down the populace 16.51 lakh. Things are that way. "