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No direct inclusion for SC, ST in BPL list
K. Balchand
NEW DELHI: Reconsidering its earlier decision, the Manmohan Singh
government is now contemplating not to give direct inclusion to all
members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the proposed
Below Poverty Line (BPL) list if one goes by the modalities being laid
out for conducting the Census.
Their inclusion will now be based on their ranking obtained from the
number of deprivation indicators they satisfy. Similarly, minorities
too don't get the same kind of importance that the Centre had
initially intended to give the community.
Only six categories of people will be compulsorily included in the BPL
list, until, of course, the exclusion criteria is applied to them.
The six category of households which will stand to benefit are the
designated primitive tribal groups, most discriminated SC groups
called Mahadalit groups where so identified by the State, female
headed households with no adult male member, minor head of households
with no adult member, destitute households which are dependent
predominantly on alms for survival, and households that are homeless
or with no homestead land.
The Centre has modified the N.C.Saxena committee recommendations in
the light of the pilot project it carried out in 254 villages cross
the country testing its efficacy in listing the BPL households and
following the demands made by several groups, said Union Rural
Development Ministry B.K.Sinha.
The danger of including all the SC and ST category households was the
threat of other groups of more deprived sections being elbowed out,
contended Mr. Sinha, who regarded the adopted course as the best
option.
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