The district administration in a bid to improve the socio-economic condition of one of the most primitive tribes in the country, Baiga, living in the district has decided to carry out a special survey on them.
According to district Collector Ashok Agrawal, the survey will focus on their socio-economic conditions such as finical status, education, employment, health among other human established human index norms.
He said that the Government would prepare special action plan for providing electricity, potable water, benefits of forest rights, child development, women empowerment and employment to them and would bring them to mainstream of life.
The Baiga tribe mostly lives in forest and whose association with the outside world is very negligible except a few of them from the new generation.
The Baiga tribe mostly dependent on the forest and the seasonal cultivations that too on rotational basis, as they do not farm continuously in a particular place, instead they keep moving from one place to the other.
Because of which they are not only economically poor but also cut off from the outside world and the district administration now wants to bring them to the mainstream of life. The Collector issued the order to this effect in a meeting of the senior officials of the district here on Tuesday.
He also took stock of the implementation of other schemes and programmes of the State Government in the district. He also issued instructions to officials to dispose of complaints without delay and take remedial measures to arrest spread of seasonal diseases including undertaking sanitation work in places of human habitat including private concerns such as hotel.
Officials were also directed to hold public hearing on the first day of a week from 11 in the morning to 1 in the noon on a regular basis to as part of effective implementation of the government welfare schemes in the state.
During the hours of public hearing, he said no official meetings would be organized in the district and restrained them from going out for inspection, instead they would be present at their respective offices on every Monday.