Congress guarantees reviving Scheduled Caste Plan, tribal Sub-Plan: Kharge
"Congress guarantees to revive the Scheduled Caste Plan and the Tribal Sub-Plan and implement it by law," he added.
Haryana Chief Minister (CM), Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday directed the officers to expedite the process for providing immediate relief to the members belonging to the Scheduled Castes (SCs), who became victim of atrocities under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, through the corpus fund set up for this purpose.
The CM, who was presiding over a meeting of State Level Vigilance and Monitoring Committee constituted under Rule 16 of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Rule 1995 today, said that the state government had already set up a corpus fund of Rs Two Crore to help such victims.
While reviewing the schemes under the Protection of Civil Rights Act, the CM asked the officers to publicise the legal aid scheme so that maximum person could get financial assistance for defending civil cases. Under this scheme, legal aid of Rs 11,000 was being given to the SCs for defending cases such as ejection from land and protection against exploitation by landlords.
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He also reviewed the relief and rehabilitation facilities provided to the victims and prosecution of cases under the Act.It was informed in the meeting that State government was taking all necessary steps to prevent and curb atrocities on the members of Scheduled Castes by enforcing the provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. All the police authorities have been directed to promptly register cases under the Act and take strict action against the accused.
To compensate the affected persons, relief ranging from Rs 85,000 to Rs 8.25 lakh was given for various acts like damage to irrigation tubewells, loss of properties, grievous hurt, temporary or permanent incapacitation, rape and murder.
As many as 532 persons were assisted with financial assistance of Rs 6.22 crore up to October 2017 during the current year.The Director General of Police, Mr B.S. Sandhu informed that all the cases registered under the Act were investigated by a gazetted officer not below the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police.
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