- With the formation of the Lepcha Development Board by the West Bengal government, there has been a demand for formation of a council on similar lines by other tribes in Darjeeling Hills.
- They demanded a separate Limbu Tribal Development Council and inclusion of Limbu language in the schools of West Bengal.
Related Information:
Lepcha is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Sikkim, Darjeeling district in West Bengal in India, and in Nepal, and in several villages of Samtsi district in Bhutan. The tribal homeland of the Lepcha people is referred to as ‘hidden paradise’ or ‘land of eternal purity’. Most of the areas in which Lepcha is spoken today were once Sikkimese territory. The Lepcha are believed to be the aboriginal inhabitants of Sikkim. Today the Lepcha people constitute a minority of the population of modern Sikkim.
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