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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Unspent Money For Dalits/Tribals, $42.6 Billion = 8 Times Agri Budget -Nikhil M Babu

Unspent Money For Dalits/Tribals, $42.6 Billion = 8 Times Agri Budget -Nikhil M Babu

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published Published on Sep 19, 2016   modified Modified on Sep 19, 2016
-IndiaSpend.com

It was raining heavily last monsoon when Heerabai’s youngest child, Seshkumari, 4, collapsed with a fever. The family could only watch helplessly as her temperature soared and she turned delirious late night.

The nearest primary health centre for Pachkol, Heerabai’s village in Chhindwara district in south-west Madhya Pradesh, is 25 km away. And every monsoon, the swollen Bhagbhel river floods the road linking the village to the health centre. If you fall sick, said residents, you have very little hope of finding any medical help.

“My daughter couldn’t even recognise us as the fever got worse at two in the morning,” recalled Heerabai, 30, lean and noticeably weak. That morning, she lost her daughter.

Heerabai and her three surviving children belong to Bhariya community, classified as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG). Her tragedy is the consequence of a 44% shortfall in the healthcare infrastructure in the tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh. This is despite the fact that, last year, the state government had left in hand Rs 4,000 crore allocated for tribal welfare.

IndiaSpend’s investigations, through a series of right-to-information (RTI) requests, reveal that over the last 35 years, Rs 2.8 lakh crore ($42.6 billion) set aside to improve the lives of scheduled castes (SCs) and scheduled tribes (STs) by way of measures like mid-day meals, scholarships and crop insurance was simply not spent. The second part of the series explores why the funds remain unspent.

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IndiaSpend.com, 19 September, 2016, http://www.indiaspend.com/cover-story/unspent-money-for-dalitstribals-42-6-billion-8-times-agri-budget-90181?utm_content=buffer5f5a9&utm_medium=social&utm_s


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