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Rajasthan
By Our Special Correspondent
JAIPUR, FEB. 24. The National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights has called upon the Rajasthan Government to take meaningful steps for welfare of Scheduled Castes and Tribes by launching heath care campaigns for them, opening residential schools for students and ensuring strict implementation of the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. A delegation of NCDHR met the State Medical and Health Minister, Digambar Singh, and the Social Welfare Minister, Madan Dilawar, here early this week and submitted memoranda to them asking for providing equal opportunities to Dalits in various walks of life and taking special measures for upkeep of their localities and meet their needs. The NCDHR's State convenor and former MP, Than Singh, said the State Government should prefer the local tribal women in the appointment of medical workers at the health sub-centres in the Tribal Sub-Plan areas to ensure better delivery of immunisation and maternal and child health services. The Dalit body felt that the prerequisite of below poverty line (BPL) should be waived in the implementation of various health care schemes in the localities inhabited by SC, ST and minorities. The benefit under the Chief Minister's Life Saving Fund and tuberculosis control programme should also be extended to the deserving people, it stated. Mr. Than Singh requested the Social Welfare Minister to open more hostels for Dalit and tribal students and hike their scholarships. He said the financial assistance to the victims of caste violence under the SC/ST Act should be released immediately after the criminal case was registered.
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