Collector Niranjan Das on Friday held discussions with the officials concerned on providing financial aid to the affected families belonging to the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) community in a district-level ‘Vigilance and Monitoring Committee’ meeting held here.
It was informed in the meeting that the financial aid totalling Rs4,21,250 was provided to the families belonging to families of Scheduled Caste community in as many as 10 cases and Rs5,95,000 to the families belonging to families of Scheduled Tribes community in as many as 11 cases last year.
As per the official records, financial aid of Rs5.95 lakhs was provided to the applicants from Scheduled Caste category people in five cases while Rs90,000 to the applicants from Scheduled Tribes category people in three cases were sanctioned this year.It was also informed that with passing an Ordinance to amend the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989, the Amendment bill – 2014 has been enforced.
Section 2 of the Amended rules has provisions to safeguard rights of the affected families and the dependent persons regarding financial and social boycott, forest rights, manual scavenging etc.
Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ravi Kumar Kurre, Assistant Commissioner SK Wahne, Anup Bhosale, Prashant Manikpuri, Radha Kashyap besides other officials from the concerned departments were present in the meeting.