The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has developed an online web-portal e-utthaan.gov.in for monitoring of Allocation for Welfare of Scheduled Castes. Similarly, Ministry of Tribal Affairs has developed the online web-portal stcmis.gov.in for monitoring of Allocation for Welfare of Scheduled Tribes.

 

As per Statement 10-A of  the Budget Document for year 2017-18, allocation for welfare of Scheduled Castes is Rs. 52392.55 crore and allocation for Welfare of Scheduled Tribes is Rs. 31919.51 crore respectively which are 20.20% and 10.74% of the total allocation for Central Sponsored Schemes (CSS) and Centrally Sector Schemes (CSS) of the identified Schemes.

 

The Allocations to the different Ministries/Departments are based on a differentiated Ministry/Department-wise earmarking of Plan funds decided in the year 2010 by the erstwhile Planning Commission as per the details below:-

 

Category	Scheduled Castes Sub Plan (SCSP)		Tribal Sub Plan (TSP)
	Obligation to Earmark	No. of Ministries/ Departments	Obligation to Earmark	No. of Ministries/ Departments
I	Nil	43	Nil	40
II	Less than 15%	10	Less than 7.5%	13
III	Between 15% & 16.2%	09	Betwen 7.5% & 8.2%	10
IV	More than 16.2%	06	More than 8.2%	05

 

This information was given by Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Shri Ramdas Athawale in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.

 

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Sanjay Kumar/jk/SJ&E-04/04-01-2018

 

(Release ID: 1515547)