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‘Problems of poor will be addressed’

Bangalore: Governor Rameshwar Thakur has said that the Government is committed to sympathetically addressing the problems of the suppressed and the poor.

He was speaking after inaugurating a seminar on “National integration and social justice” organised by the Karnataka Dalit, Backward Classes and Minorities Committee here on Thursday.

Mr. Thakur said that the country would not make progress and prosper unless the suppressed class, comprising the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, which constitutes a majority of the population, grew stronger economically, socially and politically.

He said that the Government would take steps for the speedy implementation of schemes such as providing loans at marginal rates of interest, providing basic education, creating jobs in rural areas and ensuring housing and healthcare. “I assure you that your genuine problems will be definitely addressed sympathetically by my Government,” Mr. Thakur said.

The country’s Constitution categorically stated that justice — social, economic and political — should be secured for the disadvantaged sections of society.

There were complaints that the benefits of programmes and schemes were not reaching those that they were targeted at.

Welcoming the gathering, committee president Y. Sampangi complained that the benefits of some schemes were not reaching the poor.

He alleged that the poor had to spend Rs. 5,000 for documents to avail themselves of a loan of Rs. 20,000. Moreover, owing to the presence of middlemen and corrupt officials, they usually ended up getting only Rs. 10,000, but they would have to repay the full amount of Rs. 20,000. He said Government had been taking strict measures for the recovery of loans without understanding the ground reality.

The former Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court V.S. Malimath, Mumtaz Ali Khan and D.S. Veeraiah, MLC, spoke. Shivakumara Swami of Nasimath was present

Chairman of the National Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission, Buta Singh, presided over the seminar.

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