Lok Sabha Question No. 4287 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-01-07
Subject: Government Jobs to Tribal People
Ministry: TRIBAL AFFAIRS
Asked by: RAJESH RANJAN  (PAPPU  YADAV), RANJEET RANJAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## (MINISTRY OF TRIBAL AFFAIRS) LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. †4287 TO BE ANSWERED ON 07.01.2019

## GOVERNMENT JOBS TO TRIBAL PEOPLE

## †4287.   SHRI RAJESH RANJAN: SHRIMATI RANJEET RANJAN:

Will the Minister of TRIBAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) the  details  of  the  target  set  to  make  at  least  secondary  school  education  mandatory  for  the  women belonging to the Scheduled Tribes;
- (b) the details with regard to the Government jobs given to the tribal people in all the departments as on date;
- (c) the number of posts lying vacant in all the departments as on date for the tribals; and
- (d) the details of the posts lying vacant then the scheme of the Government to fill up these posts?

## ANSWER

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

(a):  Ministry  of  Tribal  Affairs  is  implementing  a  flagship  scheme  of  Eklavya  Model  Residential  Schools (EMRSs)  for  imparting  education  to  ST  children  from  Class  VI  to  XII.  The  EMRS  has  the  capacity  of accommodating 480 students wherein 50 % of seats are for girls. As on date 284 EMRSs have been sanctioned across the country. Out of which 219 EMRSs are functional wherein about 30768 boys and 29150 girls are studying.    Further,  Government  has  decided  that  by  the  year  2022,  every  block  with  more  than  50%  ST population and at least 20,000 tribal persons to have an EMRS totalling at 462 schools on par with Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas with special facilities for preserving local art and culture besides providing training in sports  and  skill  development.  Besides,  MoTA has provided  financial  assistance  for  setting  up  of  Ashram schools across the country, which provides opportunities to ST boys and girls to inter alia access secondary education. As on 31.12.2018, 1205 Ashram Schools have been sanctioned by MoTA across the country.

Apart  from  above,  the  Centrally  Sponsored  Scheme  of  Rashtriya  Madhyamik  Shiksha  Abhiyan  (RMSA) administered by Ministry of Human Resource Development, wherein Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) funds have been earmarked, envisages inter-alia provision of a secondary school within a reasonable distance of any habitation and to improve quality of education imparted at secondary level by making all secondary schools conform to prescribed norms, removing gender, socio-economic and disability barriers etc. Under the scheme, financial support is provided to the States/UTs for opening of new government secondary schools and strengthening of existing secondary schools to improve the access to and quality of education at the secondary stage. Total amount of TSP funds provided to the States under RMSA during 2014-15 to 2018-19 is given below:

| Year    |   Fund Provided to the States under RMSA (Rs. in crore) |
|---------|---------------------------------------------------------|
| 2014-15 |                                                  374.26 |
| 2015-16 |                                                  379.36 |
| 2016-17 |                                                  396.18 |
| 2017-18 |                                                  412.8  |
| 2018-19 |                                                  450.7  |

As per Unified District Information System for Education (U-DISE), developed by the National University of Educational  Planning  and  Administration  (NUEPA),  2015-16,  total  number  of  Secondary  and  higher secondary schools functional in 177 Districts having  50% ST population including 14 Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected Districts having ≥25% ST population is as under:

| Primary with Upper Primary and Secondary and Hr. Secondary   |   4673 |
|--------------------------------------------------------------|--------|
| Upper Primary with Secondary and Hr. Secondary               |   2043 |
| Primary with Upper Primary and Secondary                     |   8583 |
| Upper Primary with Secondary                                 |   6670 |
| Secondary only                                               |   6552 |
| Secondary with Higher Secondary                              |   4861 |
| Higher Secondary only                                        |   1890 |
| All Schools                                                  |  35272 |

- (b): As per information compiled by DoP&T based on the information received   from   78 Central Ministries / Departments including their attached / subordinate offices, the representation of Scheduled Tribes in the posts and services of Central Government as on 01.01.2016 is 2,76,007 out of 32,58,663 total employees which works out to 8.47%.
- (c) & (d): DoP&T has issued instructions in November/ December, 2014 to all Ministries/ Departments to constitute an in-house Committee to identify backlog reserved vacancies, study of the root cause of backlog reserved vacancies, initiation of measures to remove such factors and to fill up such vacancies through Special Recruitment Drive.

Department of Personnel and Training (DoP&T) monitors the progress in filling up of backlog reserved vacancies for SCs, STs and OBCs with ten Central Ministries / Departments having more than 90% of the employees in Central Government.  As per information compiled by DoP&T in respect of said ten Central Ministries / Departments which includes their Public Sector Banks/Financial Institutions, Central Public Sector Undertakings etc., out of 22829 backlog reserved vacancies for STs, 15874 vacancies were filled up during  the  period  from  01.04.2012  to  31.12.2016  and  6955  backlog  vacancies  remained  unfilled  as  on 01.01.2017. Out of these ten Ministries / Departments, five Ministries / Departments have further informed that out of 6887 backlog reserved vacancies for STs, 3595 backlog reserved vacancies were filled up as on 31.12.2017 and 3292 backlog reserved vacancies for STs remained unfilled as on 01.01.2018.

Statements showing backlog reserved vacancies of STs for the ten Ministries/Departments as on 01.01.2017 and that of five Ministries/ Departments as on 01.01.2018 is at Annexure.

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## Annexure referred to in reply to Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 4287 for answer on 7.1.2019

## Details of backlog vacancies (as on 31.12.2016), vacancies filled up (as on 31.12.2016) and unfilled vacancies (as on 01.01.2017) pertaining to Scheduled Tribes

| Ministry/Department         | Scheduled Tribes   | Scheduled Tribes   | Scheduled Tribes   |
|-----------------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
| Ministry/Department         | Vacancies          | Filled up          | Unfilled           |
| Posts                       | 717                | 257                | 460                |
| Defence Production          | 1597               | 1579               | 18                 |
| Financial Services          | 6456               | 5391               | 1065               |
| Atomic Energy               | 398                | 191                | 207                |
| Defence                     | 893                | 527                | 366                |
| Railways                    | 4266               | 3942               | 324                |
| Revenue                     | 2226               | 585                | 1641               |
| Housing &Urban Affairs      | 257                | 82                 | 175                |
| Human Resources Development | 614                | 145                | 469                |
| Home Affairs                | 5405               | 3175               | 2230               |
| Total                       | 22829              | 15874              | 6955               |

## Details of backlog vacancies (as on 31.12.2017), vacancies filled up (as on 31.12.2017) and unfilled vacancies (as on 01.01.2018) pertaining to Scheduled Tribes

|                        | Scheduled Tribes   | Scheduled Tribes   | Scheduled Tribes   |
|------------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
| Ministry/ Department   | Vacancies          | Filled up          | unfilled           |
| Posts                  | 218                | 37                 | 181                |
| Defence Production     | 4086               | 2428               | 1658               |
| Financial Services     | 1923               | 815                | 1108               |
| Atomic Energy          | 398                | 239                | 159                |
| Housing& Urban Affairs | 262                | 76                 | 186                |
| Total                  | 6887               | 3595               | 3292               |