Recast SC sub-plan Act: Dalit Samithi

Karnataka Dalit Sangharsha Samithi State Convenor Mavalli Shankar has urged the government to bring amendments to Karnataka Scheduled Castes Sub-Plan and Tribal Sub-Plan (Planning, Allocation and Utilisation of Financial Resources), Act, 2013.

Briefing reporters, he said, Section 7 (D) of the Act should be scrapped. 

The section gives scope for misuse of funds. About Rs 6,000 crore has already been misutilised citing this section of the act in 2014-15.

The bill was passed to prevent diversion of funds and spending of allocated funds for schemes directly benefiting SC and ST population. The chief secretary should be made ex-officio member of the implementation panel.