Plan panel pulls up Bengal on SC, ST welfare
Express News Service Posted online: Friday , Nov 27, 2009 at 0408 hrs
Kolkata : In spite of the state government's claims that the
allocation and spending of money for Scheduled Castes Sub Plan (SCSP)
and Tribal Sub Plan (TSP) have been proper and based on the
recommendations of the Planning commission in the 11th Plan period,
representatives of the Centre and member of the Planning Commission,
Narendra Jadhav, today questioned the state government on the results
of the development not being satisfactory.
At a regional consultative workshop on the implementation of SCSP and
TSP for northern, eastern and north-eastern states in Kolkata today,
the state government was asked as to how, despite proper allocation of
funds, it claimed the results were not encouraging. The state
government, unlike other states, also failed to provide the details of
the percentage of population of SCs and STs below the poverty line.
Around 23 per cent of the state's population is Scheduled Castes while
5.5 per cent are STs. "The state government has spent 45 per cent of
funds in SC Sub Plan and 50 per cent of funds in the Tribal Sub Plan
in the first two-and-a-half years of the Plan period," said B P
Gopalika, the secretary of Backward Class Welfare Department of the
state.
Some state officials claimed funds could not be spent in areas facing
a law and order problem. "We have not been able to spend money in
areas like Lalgarh. The state government has a proposal of spending Rs
1 crore for tube wells in Lalgarh and about Rs 10 crore for housing of
the Lodha community, tribals who are mostly inhabitants of Midnapore,"
said a joint secretary of the department.
"The Planning Commission has been issuing guidelines from time to time
and the general feeling is that the results are not satisfactory,"
said Jadhav, who chaired the meeting.
Lashing out at the state government when some secretaries said they do
not have proper data on SCs and STs since they had joined the
concerned departments only recently, Jadhav said, "I will write to the
principal secretaries of all the states and ask why junior officers or
those who have joined recently do not have information and have been
sent for the deliberations."
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