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Job scheme for SCs/STs soon A Correspondent Project to be implemented in association with IT Department Functioning of NGOs to be monitored Call to increase number of hostels for students Kalpetta : A project would be implemented to provide job opportunities for the educated Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) youths in the district, Chairman of the State Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Commission Dr. P.K. Sivanandan has said. He was addressing a workshop for the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe promoters in the district organised by the State Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Commission at Trident Arcade here on Monday. This project would be implemented in association with the IT department. A survey was being conducted for that purpose, he added. The Commission had noticed that some of the Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) which were functioning in the tribal areas were misusing the tribal funds. So the functioning of the NGOs in tribal areas would be closely monitored, he said. He also added however that many of the NGOs were working in the district properly. As a part of improving the educational programmes in the tribal sector the number of the tribal hostels should be increased, the tribal promoters, who participated in the workshop, demanded. Though the government has been spending crores of rupees for the housing schemes of the tribes in the district, most of them are forced to continue their life in the leaking houses, the tribal promoters pointed out. District Collector P.P Gopi; Members of the Commission Rugmini Subrahmanian and Shakher Miniodan; Member secretary of the Commission P.E. Eenos and I.T.P.officer C.K. Pankajakshan participated in the work shop. An adalat of the State Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes Commission would be held at Kalpetta on July 9.
