Utilise fully grants meant for welfare of SCs, STs: Minister
The Hindu
Social and Backward Classes Welfare Minister Kota Srinivas Poojari on Monday directed officials to fully utilise grants earmarked for the development of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes categorie
Social and Backward Classes Welfare Minister Kota Srinivas Poojari on Monday directed officials to fully utilise grants earmarked for the development of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes categories and ensure 100% achievement.
Chairing a review meeting in Udupi, Mr. Poojari said that with the utilisation of grants, people belonging to these categories should be provided basic amenities as well as personal facilities.
Besides collecting data about Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes people, officials should gather information about their land holding, house sites, residential house, power supply so as to help the Government to bring out suitable plans for their development. The information should be collected within a week, the Minister said.
In 2021, five women from Mayithara, four of them MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) workers, found a common ground in their desire to create a sustainable livelihood by growing vegetables. Rajamma M., Mary Varkey, Valsala L., Elisho S., and Praseeda Sumesh, aged between 70 and 39, pooled their savings, rented a piece of land and began their collective vegetable farming journey under the Deepam Krishi group.