Tell me about Assam Cabinet nod to make Bodo, the associate official language of the State?

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Asked: October 28, 20212021-10-28T14:24:54+05:30 2021-10-28T14:24:54+05:30In: Polity

Assam Cabinet nods to make Bodo, the associate official language of the State.

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The Assam cabinet has decided to make Bodo the associate official language of the state.

Bodo Territorial Area District (BTAD), is home to several ethnic groups. Now BTAD is renamed to Bodoland Territorial Region
According to historians, they belong to the Tibeto-Burman family of the Mongoloid race.
Their population is concentrated mostly on the North bank of the Brahmaputra river, in western and parts of Central Assam, the northern part of West Bengal, and some parts of Bhutan and Nepal, Arunachal Pradesh, and Nagaland.
The traditional religion of the Bodos is Bathouism — they traditionally worship Bathou-Borai, often identifi ed as the Hindu God Shiva.

Bodo is one of the 22 scheduled languages of the country.
Bodo, a language of the Tibeto-Burman branch of Sino-Tibetan languages having several dialects. Bodo is spoken in the northeastern Indian states of Assam and Meghalaya and in Bangladesh.
It is related to Dimasa, Tripura, and Lalunga languages, and it is written in Latin, Devanagari, and Bengali scripts.