Community still facing discrimination: Mungekar
'Welfare of SC, ST must'
Bangalore: Jan 21, DHNS
Unless both the Centre and the State governments ensure effective
implementation of various programmes meant for uplifting the economic
condition of the members belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled
Tribes and minorities, the country will not be able to bring down the
poverty level, former Planning Commission member Prof B L Mungekar
observed.
Delivering a keynote address at the inauguration of a convention on
"Institutional Processes in New Development Paradigms" at the
Institute for Social and Economic Change, here on Thursday, he said
the members belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes,
who constitute about 27 per cent of the country's total population,
are still facing discrimination.
It may be in terms of wages or education or health, they are not being
treated at par with others in many parts of the country. As a result,
there is unequal distribution of wealth.
This, according to Mungekar, is one of the key reasons for poverty
level to remain at a higher level for long time now, despite the
country achieving higher rates of economic growth. The Planning
Commission too has acknowledged that major weakness in the economy is
lack of inclusive growth.
"Though the percentage of population below the official poverty line
has come down from 36 per cent in 1993-94 to 28 per cent in 2004-05,
the rate of decline in poverty has not accelerated along with the GDP
growth. And the incidents of poverty among certain marginalised groups
like STs have hardly declined," Mungekar noted.
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