A meeting of the State Level Vigilance and Monitoring Committee constituted under the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 was held at the Chief Minister’s residence on Saturday under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami. This meeting was organized after 14 years. The Chief Minister directed the officials to organize this meeting every 6 months. The Chief Minister said that the chairpersons of the SC and ST Commission should also be invited as special members in the upcoming meetings.
CM Dhami gave instructions regarding the Atrocities Prevention Act
The Chief Minister directed in the meeting that the pending cases under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act should be disposed of in a timely manner, for which regular advocacy should be done in the courts. On receipt of complaints, FIR proceedings should be done immediately and the police should investigate expeditiously. Cases pending for a long time should be disposed of on mission mode. It should be ensured that the victims get the permissible assistance amount as soon as possible. He directed the officials to seriously resolve the problems of the people of Scheduled Caste and Tribe.
Best practice should also be studied
During the meeting, the Chief Minister directed that such a system should be made that the system of applying old age pension to the beneficiaries on completion of 60 years of age should be simplified, so that they do not face any unnecessary trouble. For this, the best practice of other states should also be studied. The Chief Minister directed in the meeting that an integrated system should be made so that the beneficiaries get the benefits of various schemes of SC and ST category on a single platform. The Chief Minister said that “For the information of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the Social Welfare Department and the Home Department should widely publicize it through various mediums among the general public.
Schemes will be promoted through wall painting and flex
In the meeting, Finance Minister Premchand Agarwal said that in order to make people fully aware about the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and departmental schemes, publicity should be done through multipurpose welfare camps organized at the district level and also through wall painting and flex in the development block offices. Cabinet Minister Mrs. Rekha Arya said that senior or PCS officers should be appointed to speed up the work in the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commissions. She talked about further speeding up the filling of backlog posts.
Further action on suggestions
Secretary Social Welfare Dr. Neeraj Khairwal gave a detailed presentation in the meeting. He said that whatever suggestions have been received in the meeting, further action will be taken on those suggestions immediately. He said that details will be presented in the next meeting by classifying all types of cases registered under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. MLAs Khajan Das, Durgeshwar Lal, Bhupal Ram Tamta, Fakir Ram, Sarita Arya, Parvati Das, Chief Secretary Radha Raturi, Director General of Police Abhinav Kumar, Special Secretary Home Riddhim Aggarwal, Additional Secretary Prakash Chandra, Bhagwat Kishore Mishra, Omkar Singh, Director Social Welfare Ashish Bhatgai, Director Tribal Welfare Sanjay Singh Tolia and departmental officers were present in the meeting.
