Lok Sabha Question No. 3773 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-03-17
Subject: Financial Problems of SCs and OBCs
Ministry: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT
Asked by: Asit Kumar Mal

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND) EMPOWERMENT LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED) QUESTION N0.3773 TO BE ANSWERED ON 17.03.2020

## FINANCIAL PROBLEMS OF SCS AND OBCS

## 3773. SHRI ASIT KUMAR MAL:

## Will the Minister of SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government is aware that the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) people in the country have been suffering from acute finaneial problems:
- (b) if so. the details thereof: and
- the steps taken by the Government for the betterment of these downtrodden people?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT (SHRI RATTAN LAL KATARIA)

(a) economically marginalized sections of the society ineluding Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs). The Ministry/Department through its various programmes and schemes strives to build an inclusive Society. wherein members of the target groups ineluding SCs and OBCs are provided adequate support for their growth and sustainable development: The Department engages in development updation of legislation: polieies and guidelines at the National level for effeetive implementation of its objectives.

The programmes and schemes for the betterment of the SC and OBC are as under:

- National  Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation (NSFDC) through its thirteen Credit Based Sehemes and Skill Training Programme
- (ii) Assistance to State Seheduled Castes Development Corporation (SCDC)
- (iii) Venture Capital Fund for Scheduled Castes (VCF-SC)
- (iv) Credit Enhancement Guarantee Scheme for Seheduled Castes (CEGSSC)
- (v National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC)
- (vi) Centrally Sponsored Seheme for Pre-Matric Scholarship to the SC' Students studying in
- and prone to health hazards
- (viii) Post-Matric Scholarship for SCs
- (ix) Special Central Assistance to Scheduled Caste Sub Plan
- (x) Babu Jagjivan Ram Chhatrawas Yojana for Girls and Boys
- (xii) Central Seetor Seholarship of Class Education for SC Students Top
- (xiii) Free Coaching Scheme for SC and OBC Students
- (xiv) National Fellowship Seheme for SC Students
- (xv) National Overseas Scholarship
- (xvi) Pre- Matric Seholarship to the OBC Students
- (xvii) Post-Matrie Scholarship for OBC Students
- (xviii) Construction of Hostels for OBC and Girls Boys
- (xix) Assistance for Skill Development of OBCs/DNTs/EBCs
- (xx) Dr. Ambedkar Scheme of  Interest   Subsidy for Overseas Studies Studies for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Economically Backward Classes (EBCs) students
- (xxi) National Fellowship (NF) for OBC
- (xxii) Schemes for Development of Denotified. Nomadic and Semi-nomadie Tribes (DNTs)
- (xxiii) Dr. Ambedkar Post-Matrie Seholarship for  Economically Backward Classes (EBCs)
- (xxiv) Dr. Ambedkar Scheme of Pre-Matrie and Post-Matric Seholarship for DNTs
- (xxv Nanaji Deshmukh Scheme of Construction of Hostels for DNT and Girls Boys
- (xxvi) Venture Capital Fund for Backward Classes (VCF-BC)
- (xxvii) National Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation (NBCFDC) through Term Loan. Micro Finance and Skill Development. and

(xxviii) National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC)