CURRENT AFFAIRS STRATEGIST PROGRAM

Target Prelims 2019: Booklet 19

Governance – CA – Part 1
Welfare Schemes / Programs / Acts / Bodies
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes................................................................................................................................... 2
1) Constitutional Provisions .................................................................................................................................................... 2
A) Social Rights and Safeguards .......................................................................................................................................... 2
B) Educational/Economic Rights and Safeguards............................................................................................................... 2
C) Service Rights and Safeguards ........................................................................................................................................ 2
D) Political Rights and Safeguards ...................................................................................................................................... 2
E) Administrative Rights and Safegaurds ........................................................................................................................... 3
2) Legal Provisions/Safeguards for SCs/STs ............................................................................................................................ 3
1) Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 ................................................................................................................................ 3
2) Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 ................................................................ 4
3) Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 ............................ 5
4) Minor FOrest Produce (MFP).......................................................................................................................................... 7
5) MSP Scheme for MFP ..................................................................................................................................................... 7
6) Other Recent Steps for Tribal Welfare ........................................................................................................................... 8
7) Procedure for Declaration as SC/ST ............................................................................................................................... 8
3) Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) ................................................................................................................ 10
A) Important PVTGs in Different States ............................................................................................................................ 11
B) Death of American Citizen who visited North Sentinel Island .................................................................................... 11
4) Acts and Schemes Dealing with Manual Scavenging ....................................................................................................... 14
A) The Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 ....................................................................................................................... 14
B) The EMployment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 ......................... 14
C) Prohibition of EMployment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 ............................................ 14
D) National Scheme for Liberation and Rehabilitation of Scavengers (NSLRS) ............................................................... 15
E) Self Employment Scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers (SRMS) ............................................................. 15