Centre forms committee to examine steps to safeguard interests of SCs
- A high-level panel has been formed to examine the administrative steps that can be taken to safeguard the interests of scheduled caste communities like the Madigas.
Key Highlights
- The panel will seek to ensure fair allocation of benefits to the most disadvantaged communities within the Scheduled Castes
- Which have been overshadowed by comparatively affluent and influential groups.
- It will examine the administrative steps that can be taken to safeguard the interests of the scheduled caste communities, like the Madigas and other such groups
- Who have represented that they are not evenly getting their due share of benefits.
- The committee will comprise
- Secretaries of the Ministry of Home Affairs
- The Department of Personnel and Training
- The Ministry of Tribal Affairs
- The Department of Legal Affairs
- The Department of Social Justice and Empowerment.
- The government has been in receipt of representations from state governments, including Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka for the sub-categorisation of SCs
- Which includes the Madiga community, on the grounds that the benefits of reservation and welfare/developmental schemes are not percolating evenly among them.
- The matter has been placed before various courts of law and is at present under consideration of a seven-judge SC bench.
Prelims Takeaway
- Madigas
- Sub-categorisation of SCs