http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Commission-for-SC/ST-granted-49cr/articleshow/7524522.cms
Commission for SC/ST granted 4.9cr
TNN, Feb 19, 2011, 02.24am IST
PANAJI: Chief minister Digambar Kamat on Friday said the government
had recently sanctioned 4.9 crore to the Scheduled Castes and
Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) commission in addition to the 5 crore
allotted to it earlier.
Kamat made the anouncement at a press conference after a function
wherein Cumbharjua Congress MLA Pandurang Madkaikar was formally
administered the oath of office as the new chairman of the Goa state
SC/ST commission. The SC community in Goa is estimated to be about 2%
of the total population of the state while the ST community is
estimated to be about 12.3% of the state's population.
Kamat said Madkaikar will now start functioning as the chairman of the
SC/ST commission and that "this fulfils one more commitment given by
my government that we would constitute the commission."
Kamat said the government has already constituted a separate
department of tribal affairs and that he has requested Madkaikar to
identify a suitable area to house the office of the tribal affairs
department and the state commission for SC/ST.
"My government had at one stroke, given 5 crore to the ST commission
for the implementation of various schemes for the benefit of the ST
population. Recently we have alloted another 4.9 crore to the ST
commission and I have asked its office bearers to see that this money
is also utilized for the implementation of various schemes of the
commission."
Madkaikar told TOI that the government has made a budgetary provision
of 12% of the state's budget for the welfare of tribal people, to be
implemented through various government departments. "My job is to see
that these departments really utilize the funds for the welfare of
tribal people."
He also said that the SC/ST commission has powers as enjoyed by civil
courts and that its orders can only be challenged in the high court.
Madkaikar said that although the commission does not have any schemes
for the SC/ST population, its mandate is to monitor the implementation
of schemes for the SC/ST community offered by other governmental
agencies and departments.
The commission also has a mandate to monitor that the reservation
policy for the SC/ST community in government departments is followed
and that any injustice on this count is corrected. "If any one from
the SC/ST community is deprived of their rights, he can petition our
commission. Our job is give a hearing to the aggrieved party, summon
anyone concerned with the case for a hearing and then issue orders,"
Madkaikar said.
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