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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 'Centre diverted Rs 20,000-crore tribal funds'

'Centre diverted Rs 20,000-crore tribal funds'

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published Published on Feb 14, 2011   modified Modified on Feb 14, 2011
The central government had diverted Rs 20,000 crore of funds meant for tribal people’s welfare to other departments in the past two years, CPM Politburo member and Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch president Brinda Karat alleged here on Monday.

Speaking at a dharna organised by the AP Girijana Sangham in front of the office of the Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) here to seek release of more funds for the welfare of tribals, she charged the state and central governments with failure to release funds for the development of the tribal community in proportion to their population which now stood at 8.2 per cent of the total population and also in accordance with the Planning Commission’s guidelines.

The CPM leader criticised the government’s decision to divide areas into tribal and non-tribal in order to implement the Left-Wing Extremism Scheme.

She accused Congress-ruled states of not implementing the Forest Right Act properly, thus denying justice to over 5 lakh tribal families living in Maharashtra and over 4 lakh in AP.

Turning her attention to the rising prices of essential, she alleged that due to government’s negligence and failure to control prices the common man and tribals were hit hard, and demanded that the government supply 30 kg of rice to each family of tribals and poor.

While people were suffering shortage and denial of rice, the commerce secretary was talking of exporting rice kept in godowns, she remarked.

On the scams surfacing one after the other, Brinda Karat said when scams of the scale of crores of rupees were coming to light in the national capital, who would bother about the scams in states.

In the coming Parliament session the CPM would raise the issues of price hike, Forest Right Act and funds for tribals.

The Express Buzz, 15 February, 2011, http://expressbuzz.com/states/andhrapradesh/centre-diverted-rs-20000-crore-tribal-funds/248226.html


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