Lok Sabha Question No. 4078 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-27
Subject: Welfare of Tribal Students
Ministry: TRIBAL AFFAIRS
Asked by: KUNWAR PUSHPENDRA SINGH CHANDEL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (MINISTRY OF TRIBAL AFFAIRS)

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. † 4078

TO BE ANSWERED ON 27.03.2017

## WELFARE OF TRIBAL STUDENT

## † 4078.  SHRI KUNWAR PUSHPENDRA SINGH CHANDEL:

Will the Minister of TRIBAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has reviewed / proposes to review the facilities being provided to the students residing in residential schools located in tribal areas like safe drinking water, proper toilets, regular health checkup and nutritious food and if so, the details and outcome thereof;
- (b)  whether cases of death of students have come to the notice / been reported for want of such facilities from the schools during each of the last three years and the current year, States / UT-wise and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government proposes to conduct / has conducted any enquiry and investigation in this regard;
- (d) if so, the details along with the findings of such investigation / enquiry and the follow-up action taken by the Government and
- (e)  the  details  of  expenditure  incurred  on  computer  education  including  qualitative  education  of science during the last three years in residential schools and whether the Government proposes to take help from private sector in this regard; and if so, the details thereof, State / UT-wise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF TRIBAL AFFAIRS (SHRI JASWANTSINH BHABHOR)

- (a) Administration and management of Residential Schools is the responsibility of concerned State Government. However, based on the assessment/ proposals received from concerned State Govt. funds are provided for facilities/ amenities like drinking water, toilets, sanitation complex, kitchen gardens for nutritious food under Special Central Assistance to Tribal-Sub Plan (SCA to TSP) and Grants under Article 275(1) of the Constitution of India from time to time.
- (b) to (d): There have been press reports of death in schools in Maharashtra, Odisha, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh. As per the newspaper reports there are different reasons for this like lack of health services and basic amenities, suicide, blood cancer, jaundice, brain TB, rabies, snake bites, malaria, cerebral malaria, meningitis, typhoid and scorpion bites, train accident, attack by wasps, aspiration of  food,  tractor  accident,  normal  death,  death  at  night  in  sleep,  severe  headache,  heavy  intraabdominal bleeding due to rupture of spleen due to blunt trauma, electric shock and falling down.

Administration and management of the schools is the responsibility of concerned State Government.  Details  of  investigation/  enquiry  are  not  maintained  centrally,  since  'Police'  and 'Public Order'  are State subjects under the Seventh  Schedule  to  the Constitution of India. However,  taking  cognizance  of  press  reports  about  deaths,  the  State  Governments  have  been addressed.

- (e):     Expenditure incurred on computer education including qualitative education of science, in the  schools  is  not  maintained  in  this  Ministry.  However,  based  upon  proposals  from  State Governments,  the  Ministry  has  provided  funds  for  these  purposes  under  Special  Central Assistance to Tribal Sub-Plan (SCA to TSP) and Grants under Article 275(1) of the Constitution of India as indicated in the Annexure. No proposal is under onsideration of the Ministry at this stage for taking help from private sector in this regard.

Annexure referred  to  in  part  (e)  of  the  Lok  Sabha  Unstarred  Question  No.  4078  for answer  on  27.03.2017  asked  by  Shri  Kunwar  Pushpendra  Singh  Chandel  regarding 'Welfare of Tribal Students'

## Funds released for quality improvement in Education of ST students including Computer and Science

(Rs. in Lakh)

| S.N   | State            |   2014-15 |   2015-16 |   2016-17 |
|-------|------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| 1.    | Andhra Pradesh   |         0 |    569    |      0    |
| 2.    | Assam            |         0 |      0    |    900    |
| 3.    | Bihar            |         0 |      0    |    333    |
| 4.    | Chhattisgarh     |       260 |    637    |    175    |
| 5.    | Gujarat          |         0 |    590    |    461    |
| 6.    | Himachal Pradesh |         0 |    300    |    220    |
| 7.    | Jammu &Kashmir   |         0 |      0    |    864.42 |
| 8.    | Jharkhand        |         0 |    400    |      0    |
| 9.    | Karnataka        |         0 |    810    |      0    |
| 10.   | Kerala           |         0 |    300    |      0    |
| 11.   | Madhya Pradesh   |         0 |   1000    |    278    |
| 12.   | Maharashtra      |         0 |   1320    |   1500    |
| 13.   | Mizoram          |         0 |     80    |      0    |
| 14.   | Nagaland         |        50 |      0    |      0    |
| 15.   | Odisha           |         0 |   5873    |      0    |
| 16.   | Rajasthan        |         0 |    427    |      0    |
| 17.   | Sikkim           |         0 |     50    |     23    |
| 18.   | Telangana        |         0 |   1342    |    285.5  |
| 19.   | Tripura          |         0 |    390    |      0    |
| 20.   | Uttar Pradesh    |         0 |    141.78 |      0    |
| 21.   | West Bengal      |         0 |    800.84 |   2173    |
| Total | Total            |       310 |  15030.6  |   7212.92 |