This document provides an overview of key welfare schemes, acts, and constitutional provisions related to scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and manual scavengers in India. It discusses affirmative action guaranteed to SCs and STs under the constitution as well as important legal protections like the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, and the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006. It also outlines government schemes for particularly vulnerable tribal groups and acts prohibiting manual scavenging like the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993
This document provides an overview of key welfare schemes, acts, and constitutional provisions related to scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and manual scavengers in India. It discusses affirmative action guaranteed to SCs and STs under the constitution as well as important legal protections like the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, and the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006. It also outlines government schemes for particularly vulnerable tribal groups and acts prohibiting manual scavenging like the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993
This document provides an overview of key welfare schemes, acts, and constitutional provisions related to scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and manual scavengers in India. It discusses affirmative action guaranteed to SCs and STs under the constitution as well as important legal protections like the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, and the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006. It also outlines government schemes for particularly vulnerable tribal groups and acts prohibiting manual scavenging like the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993
Governance – CA – Part 1 Welfare Schemes / Programs / Acts / Bodies TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes................................................................................................................................... 2 1) Constitutional Provisions .................................................................................................................................................... 2 A) Social Rights and Safeguards .......................................................................................................................................... 2 B) Educational/Economic Rights and Safeguards............................................................................................................... 2 C) Service Rights and Safeguards ........................................................................................................................................ 2 D) Political Rights and Safeguards ...................................................................................................................................... 2 E) Administrative Rights and Safegaurds ........................................................................................................................... 3 2) Legal Provisions/Safeguards for SCs/STs ............................................................................................................................ 3 1) Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 ................................................................................................................................ 3 2) Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 ................................................................ 4 3) Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 ............................ 5 4) Minor FOrest Produce (MFP).......................................................................................................................................... 7 5) MSP Scheme for MFP ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 6) Other Recent Steps for Tribal Welfare ........................................................................................................................... 8 7) Procedure for Declaration as SC/ST ............................................................................................................................... 8 3) Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) ................................................................................................................ 10 A) Important PVTGs in Different States ............................................................................................................................ 11 B) Death of American Citizen who visited North Sentinel Island .................................................................................... 11 4) Acts and Schemes Dealing with Manual Scavenging ....................................................................................................... 14 A) The Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 ....................................................................................................................... 14 B) The EMployment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 ......................... 14 C) Prohibition of EMployment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 ............................................ 14 D) National Scheme for Liberation and Rehabilitation of Scavengers (NSLRS) ............................................................... 15 E) Self Employment Scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers (SRMS) ............................................................. 15