Dist-level officials should visit SC/ST hostels every month- DC
Mangalore Nov 1:
"District-level officials should visit SC/ST hostels every month to
unearth lapses in the administration by hostel wardens," directed
Deputy Commissioner V Ponnuraj.
Presiding over a grievance meet organised for Dalits at the Deputy
Commissioner's Office here on Friday, Ponnuraj said that officials
including Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer should visit hostels
in the evening and check the quality of food served there by eating it
along with students. Reports with regard to the official visit should
be submitted to the district administration periodically, the DC said.
Talking about the allegations of misappropriations in the purchase and
stock of food items in SC/ST hostels, Ponnuraj said that committees
comprising inmate students, local Dalit leaders and hostel authorities
must be formed in every hostels. Godowns of the hostels should be
locked using double-key locks and one of the keys should be handed
over to the student members in the committee, he suggested. Dalit
leaders also should take initiative to prevent misappropriations in
SC/ST hostels, he added.
Earlier Dalit Sangharsha Samiti (Ambedkar faction) district President
S P Anand had brought to the notice of DC that irregularities and
misappropriations are in place at several SC/ST hostels in the
district. Anand pointed out that the authorities of Yedapadavu SC/ST
hostel stopped serving milk to inmates. "While there is sanction to
purchase 6 kilograms of chicken meat every week for 22 students in the
hostel, authorities bring only 2 kilograms every week," Anand alleged.
Further, he said that students at many hostels lack proper medical
attention.
When Dalit leaders demanded an Ambedkar Bhavan in Mangalore, DC said
that though there is a Bhavan near Kudmul Ranga Rao Hostel in the
city, most of the rooms in the building have been rented out for
commercial purposes. The building should not have been converted for
commercial purposes, he said adding that the remaining rooms in the
building should be used only for dalit welfare schemes.
Sahayavani meet
A grievance meet under the 'Sahayavani' scheme has been organised at
the DC's Office on Friday. Chairing the meet, Additional Deputy
Commissioner Prabhakar Sharma said that all complaints received
through Sahayavani will be disposed within 15 days. Sharma said that
the Sahayavani counter in the DC Office will be open for public on all
second and fourth Fridays. A total of 13 complaints were received on
the first day.
DHNS
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