SC/ST colonies should develop with all facilities: DC

Deputy Commissioner R. Ragapriya has directed officials to identify the localities of Schedule Caste and Scheduled Tribes that lack facilities and ensure they are equipped with the same immediately.Sh

Deputy Commissioner R. Ragapriya has directed officials to identify the localities of Schedule Caste and Scheduled Tribes that lack facilities and ensure they are equipped with the same immediately.

She was addressing a review meeting recently in Yadgir.

Dr. Ragapriya said the government has earmarked adequate grants and announced various schemes under different departments such as Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Fishery, Forest, Cooperative, Transport, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, Housing, Health, Urban Development, PWD, Energy, Major and Minor Irrigation, Planning, Medical Education, Primary and Higher Education, Backward Classes Welfare, Skill Development, Handlooms and Textile, Small Scale Industries, Food and Civil Supplies, Revenue, Labour, Kannada and Culture and Social Welfare to reach out the people with programmes. Hence, officials should implement such programmes effectively and ensure development of SC and ST colonies, she advised.