As per the Ministry of Personnel,
Public Grievances and Pensions, out of a total 76137 backlog vacancies in
various ministries in the central government and in the central PSUs, the
government could fill up only 26472 vacancies in 3 years exercise of special
recruitment drive.
As per the data released by the
Reserve Bank of India in December 2011, the credit disbursements to dalit
entrepreneurs dropped by 33.8 percent this year(2011-12). The disbursement of credit to dalit
entrepreneurs through 20 odd schemes run by the Ministry of Social Justice has
dropped to Rs 1670 crore between April and October this financial year, where
as durig the same period in 2010, Rs 2524 crore was lent to the companies run
by the members of Sceheduled Castes and Tribes. In such case how the mandate of
4% of the government procurement from dalit and tribal vendors can be
implemented?
As per the data of the National
Sample Survey Organisation, the percentage of self employed households among
the Scheduled Castes was 14 in rural areas and 29 in urban areas, compared with
17 and 37 percent for the higher castes.
The economic census of private
enterprises for 2005 showed that the percentage of ST, SC, OBC and higher
castes owners in the total private enterprises was 2,6,30 and 61 respectively
in urban areas, whereas it was 6, 10, 40 and 45 in rural areas. The share of private
entrepreneurs belonging to the scheduled
castes and scheduled tribes is far less than their share in the population.
The government’s pious words favouring
improving the lot of the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes are not
resulting in much improvement. A struggle is required against the policies of
the government to change this situation for the better.
(This is based on the article “UPA
Govt Must Be Made to Walk the Talk” by G.Mamatha in “People’s Democracy” January 29 issue.)
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