{"id":33537,"date":"2020-11-14T04:46:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T04:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=33537"},"modified":"2020-11-14T04:46:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T04:46:48","slug":"jharkhand-is-seeking-a-separate-religious-code-for-sarna-tribals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/jharkhand-is-seeking-a-separate-religious-code-for-sarna-tribals\/","title":{"rendered":"Jharkhand is seeking a separate religious code for Sarna tribals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Jharkhand government convened a special session and passed a resolution to send the Centre a letter to recognise Sarna religion and include it as a separate code in the Census of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The followers of Sarna faith believe pray to nature. The holy grail of the faith is \u201cJal, Jungle, Zameen\u201d and its followers pray to the trees and hills while believing in protecting the forest areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is believed that 50 lakhs tribal in the entire country put their religion as \u2018Sarna\u2019 in the 2011 census, although it was not a code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jharkhand has 32 tribal groups of which eight are from Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While many follow Hindu religion, some have converted to Christianity \u2014 this has become one of the planks of demanding a separate code \u201cto save religious identity\u201d\u2014 as various tribal organisations put it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jharkhand government convened a special session and passed a resolution to send the Centre a letter to recognise Sarna religion and include it as a separate code in the Census of 2021. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points &nbsp;The followers of Sarna faith believe pray to nature. 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