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"All in not well in ST & SC department", say BJD MLAs
PTI | 08:03 PM,Mar 25,2011
Bhubaneswar, Mar 25 (PTI) A day after opposition Congress accused
Orissa government of diverting tribal welfare funds for development in
cities, ruling BJD MLAs today said "all is not well in the Schedule
Tribe and Scheduled Caste department." "We (ST and SC) form 40 per
cent of the state's population. But budgetary allocation for ST and SC
Development department is only about Rs 1200 crore against the state's
total budget amount of about Rs 42,000 crore," said former minister
and BJD MLA Padmanav Behera while participating in the debate on
budgetary demand for ST & SC Development and Minorities & Backward
Classes Welfare Department.Though chief minister Naveen Patnaik was
sympathetic towards tribals and dalits, the department was not
implementing programmes for their welfare, Behera alleged.Stating that
hostels built for tribal and dalit students were not maintained
properly, Behera said he was witness to students sleeping on floor
without proper bed or mosquito nets in malaria prone Keonjhar and
Mayurbhanj."Even children are forced to use lanteren as there is no
electricity connection in many tribal schools and hostels," Behera
said alleging that the department took little steps to improve
hygienic condition.Behera also alleged that Tribal Development
Cooperative Corporation (TDCC) and Scheduled Caste Financial
Corporation (SCFC) were defunct. "Instead of raising budget for the
two corporations, there had been decline in the allocations," he
said.Other tribal and dalit members belonging to ruling BJD also
alleged that the recommendations made by assembly's standing committee
and other committees were not being properly implemented causing
hardship for the communities.While the ruling BJD members were not
happy over the functioning of the ST & ST development department,
senior Congress lawmaker Dambarudhar Ullka's revelation had left many
including chief minister surprised. .
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