Police and administration will have to come forward and work to improve ST: Dr Asha Lakra

Dumka. A meeting with senior officials of the district including the Deputy Commissioner was held at the Collectorate Auditorium under the chairmanship of Dr Asha Lakra, member of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes. In the meeting, Dr Asha Lakra took information about various schemes executed in the district for the scheduled tribes in the course of their review. Apart from this, many instructions were given to the departmental officials for the progress of the scheduled castes in social and economic fields. While reviewing the police department, he took information about the FIRs registered across the district. He said that the police station is there to support the victims, under no circumstances should the common people return disappointed. Form a special team so that security measures can be maintained in case of emergency. Ensure that there is a female security force in all police stations. He said that the Commission is continuously monitoring with an aim to provide protection, security and justice to the Scheduled Tribe category. Along with the administration, the police will also have to come forward and work for the betterment of the Scheduled Tribes. While reviewing the health department, Dr Asha Lakra took information about hospitals, CHCs, PHCs, HHCs, ambulances, number of doctors, etc., located across the district. She said that the availability of doctors in the hospital should be 24×7. To ensure that patients do not face any kind of problem, display the duty information of doctors in the list. Give wide publicity to the OPD so that patients can get their treatment on time. The civil surgeon was directed to inform his department if there is any shortage of equipment, morgue, etc. in the health department. In this sequence, she reviewed the Education and Welfare Department. Information was taken about the number of students from the Scheduled Tribe community studying in all the schools run by the Education Department, number of teachers, appointments and reports related to the available teachers. Check once the availability of beds, mosquito nets and drinking water for the children in the boarding schools. Clean the school and hostel regularly. Their significant contribution is needed to increase the literacy rate. There are a large number of schools across the district, it will be difficult to monitor them, so the schools sector should be kept under review regarding dates. Organise inter-school sports competitions. Organise a quiz competition. While reviewing social welfare, he took information about the functioning of the Anganwadi centre. He asked to monitor the blankets distributed by social security. Take special care to ensure that the distribution of pension scheme is timely. Information was obtained about 1,039 PDS establishments engaged in food supply. As per the scheme applied to ration card holders, distribution of ration should be done on time every month. Take immediate action on complaints from distributors. He said that in rural areas, the condition of taps, boreholes and water pipes should be checked. In this sequence, while reviewing other departments including Forest Department, MNREGA, PM Housing, Abua Housing, Industry Department, JLSPS, he gave many necessary instructions to the concerned officer. Deputy Commissioner, Deputy Development Commissioner, Divisional Forest Officer, Director ITDA, Assistant Collector, senior officials of all the departments, all Block Development Officers and Circle Officers and others were present in the meeting.

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