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Chellappa panel to submit report by August
The Chellappa Commission, constituted by the State government to study the development status of Scheduled Tribes (STs) in the State, has finalised its report and is about to submit it to the government in the first week of August.
Mahbubnagar: The Chellappa Commission, constituted by the State government to study the development status of Scheduled Tribes (STs) in the State, has finalised its report and is about to submit it to the government in the first week of August.
Dr S Chellappa, Chairman and member of the Commission, held a review meeting with senior officials and District Collector Dr T K Sreedevi at Revenue Meeting Hall on Tuesday and sought information on various development and welfare schemes being implemented for the uplift of STs in the district.
Dr Chellappa along with his team members Dr Jagannath Rao and HK Nagula met the officials of various departments and sought information about the number of employees from ST communities working in various departments.
Addressing the meeting, Dr Chellappa said, “We have toured Mahbubnagar, Nizamabad and Adilabad districts and had held 32 meetings with officials, leaders of tribal communities apart from conducting extensive studies in some of the remote tribal villages to probe into the status of Tribal communities living in the remote areas. We will be submitting the complete report by first week of August,” he informed.
The Commission members further sought information from the Collector and other department heads about what kind of welfare and financial support being extended to ‘Valmiki’ Tribes in the district. The members felt that there was a need to spread awareness about the government schemes and welfare programmes among poor tribals in the remote areas.
“We feel that more awareness would help the tribals and encourage them to join their children in ST Welfare Hostels and help them improve their education,” observed Chellappa. Similarly, the panel members also felt that the financial support extended to the Boya community in comparison to the Gangaputra (fishermen) community is also far less and needs to be enhanced to improve the financial and livelihood conditions of these communities in the state.
While enumerating the various welfare schemes being implemented for the tribals in the district the Collector said that more than 640 members who were dependent on the selling of ‘Gudumba’ were rehabilitated and among them 323 were tribals. “We are implementing all the welfare and development programmes to the tribals both in the Chenchupenta and open area tribal communities.
In addition to this, we have provided rehabilitation to those tribals who are depending on Gudumba selling for their livelihood. overnment is providing 80 per cent subsidy and 20 per cent bank loans under self-employment schemes.
In addition to these, welfare schemes like Aasara pensions, subsidised seeds, land purchase to poor triabls etc are also being implemented for the uplift of tribes,” informed the Collector.
