JOIN US'Data on SC/STs to be collected in Udupi town'
Speaking on the occasion, CMC Commissioner Gokuldas Nayak informed that the CMC has taken an innovative step towards registering the statistical data of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes within the city limits. Without such a data, implementing and identifying the beneficiaries for many welfare programmes announced by the government, is difficult. As many as Rs 2.5 crore is being allocated by the CMC for the development programmes of these two communities. Lack of scientific awareness among Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes is creating problems in introducing health related programmes among these communities, he said.
As an attempt towards identifying more beneficiaries to the welfare programmes announced by the government, the CMC has taken up survey to document social and economic status of these both communities residing in the CMC limits. The entire responsibility to collect the required data has been assigned to Manipal University Rural Study Centre. Experts in the field have been identified and will be shortly assigned the job. This workshop was organised to train the enumerators. In the process of survey, every family will be given information card, he added.
Speaking after inaugurating the workshop, Standing Committee Chairman Sumitra R Nayak informed that this is an attempt to bring both the communities into the mainstream of the society. Survey should be able to give away the loopholes in the system. This would help to correct the things that went wrong. The funds allotted for the development programmes of these people should be utilised for the genuine purpose, she added.
“The people belonging to backward communities constitute majority of the country’s population. They should not be left out in the process of development. They should be brought to the mainstream in the society,” said Rural Study Centre, Manipal University, former Director Krishna Kothaya.
Calling upon everyone to join hands in the process, he said the welfare programmes announced by the government should reach every individual communities.
District ITDP Officer Urmila, Chandrasekhar Nayak and others were present.