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Adi Dravidar Welfare Department launches official website

PUDUCHERRY: The Adi Dravidar Welfare Department on Friday launched its website, adwelfare.puducherry.gov.in, to provide information about welfare schemes to Scheduled Castes.

The website was inaugurated by Social Welfare Minister M. Kandasamy in the Committee Room of the Assembly complex.

Speaking to reporters after the inauguration, Mr. Kandasamy said the site would provide information about all the welfare schemes of the government for the Scheduled Castes and other socially and economically backward people.

Those seeking benefits of the welfare schemes could download applications from the website.

The website would also have details pertaining to the duties of various welfare officers, list of hostels and community halls run by the department, data on industrial workers, students, socio-economic status of SCs and budgetary expenditure of the department, Mr. Kandasamy said.

Details with regard to the implementation of the Special Component Sub Plan has also been listed on the website, he added.

The Minister said the department would launch a scheme to provide houses for all the SCs. A plan was being worked out to construct houses at the cost of Rs. 1 lakh each for the dwelling unit.

In implementing the housing scheme, priority would be given to the families living below the poverty line, Mr. Kandasamy said. A detailed survey was on to ascertain the socio-economic status of the SCs in the Union Territory, Mr. Kandasamy said, adding that before initiating the scheme, he would personally visit all the villages to study the situation after the Assembly budget session.

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