Pauri District Magistrate Chandra Shekhar Bhatt instructed district-level officers of all departments to ensure inclusion of benefitial plans for the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe in their annual plans for the year 2015-16. The drafted plans should be submitted by May 30 so that they may be sanctioned in the meeting of District Planning Committee.
Bhatt stressed that Special Component Plan/Tribal Sub Plan (SCP/TSP) are adopted in the form of act, under which in the department plans, 18 percent is allocated for SCP and three percent for TSP and there is a provision of punishment for violating this criteria. Bhatt instructed all departments to propose 40 per cent plans for the development of the villages of scheduled caste and scheduled tribe and also to submit proposals under SCP and TSP through the Gram Panchayat, Block Panchayat and District Panchayat with the cooperation of public representatives.
He said that departments concerned should work to bring about improvement in the living standard of SC-ST in the allotted budget of the district plan. The DM instructed department officers to make arrangements for the planning and distribution of funds under the scheduled caste sub plans and scheduled tribe sub plans.
The officers should make efforts to involve the intended beneficiaries in the developmental activities. Garhwal divisional forest officer Raj Mani Pandey, district development officer Ved Prakash, district economic and statistics officer Chitra Kanaujiya and other district level officers were also present in the meeting.