Lok Sabha Question No. 958 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-04-29
Subject: Monitoring of Schemes under SCSP and TSP
Ministry: PLANNING
Asked by: B.V. NAYAK

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PLANNING

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 958 TO BE ANSWERED ON 29.04.2016

## Monitoring of Schemes under SCSP and TSP

## 958.    SHRI B.V. NAIK:

## Will the Minister of PLANNING be pleased to state :

- (a) whether as per guidelines issued by NITI Aayog on Scheduled Castes Sub-Plan (SCSP) and Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) implementation, the State Governments need to establish State level, district level and block-level Standing Committees to monitor the implementation of various schemes under SCSP and TSP;
- (b) if so, the details of States/UTs where these Standing Committees are formed;
- (c) the reason for not forming such various level Committees in some States along with the plan of action for establishment of these Standing Committees in these States; and
- (d) the corrective measures taken by the Government in this regard?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR MINISTRY OF PLANNING AND MINISTER OF STATE FOR DEFENCE (RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

- (a) States/Union Territories (UTs) are empowered to setup Vigilance and Monitoring Committees at the State / District / Block levels for monitoring of Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan (SCSP) as per revised Guidelines for SCSP issued on 18.06.2014 by the erstwhile Planning Commission.  The revised Guidelines  for  the  Tribal  Sub-Plan  (TSP)  issued  also  on  18.06.2014  by  the  erstwhile  Planning Commission provided for an Apex Level Committee or a Tribal Advisory Council  under the Chief Minister and the District Planning and Monitoring Committee  under the  Deputy Commissioner /District Collector to, inter alia, monitor and review of TSP. The Guidelines were reiterated by the NITI Aayog in April 2015.
- (b) A statement showing States/UTs which have constituted the Committees is placed at Annexure-I .
- (c) & (d) The Government of National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi and Andaman and Nicobar Administration have not constituted the Committees so far. They have been advised again to do the needful to constitute the Committees.

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## Statement referred to in reply to part (b) of Lok Sabha Un-starred Question No. 958 to be answered on 29.04.2016 regarding monitoring of SCSP and TSP

## Details of Committees Constituted and Action Plan

|   Sl. No. | Name of the State /UT         | Status of Committees Constituted at the State, district and block level   |
|-----------|-------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|         1 | Andaman &Nicobar Islands (UT) | Not constituted                                                           |
|         2 | Andhra Pradesh                | Constituted                                                               |
|         3 | Arunachal Pradesh             | Not Applicable                                                            |
|         4 | Assam                         | Constituted                                                               |
|         5 | Bihar                         | Constituted                                                               |
|         6 | Chandigarh (UT)               | Constituted                                                               |
|         7 | Chattisgarh                   | Constituted                                                               |
|         8 | Dadra &Nagar Haveli (UT)      | Not Applicable                                                            |
|         9 | Daman &Diu (UT)               | Not Applicable                                                            |
|        10 | Delhi                         | Not constituted                                                           |
|        11 | Goa                           | Constituted                                                               |
|        12 | Gujarat                       | Constituted                                                               |
|        13 | Haryana                       | Constituted                                                               |
|        14 | Himachal Pradesh              | Constituted                                                               |
|        15 | Jammu &Kashmir                | Constituted                                                               |
|        16 | Jharkhand                     | Constituted                                                               |
|        17 | Karnataka                     | Constituted                                                               |
|        18 | Kerala                        | Constituted                                                               |
|        19 | Lakshadweep                   | Not Applicable                                                            |
|        20 | Madhya Pradesh                | Constituted at State and District Level                                   |
|        21 | Maharashtra                   | Constituted                                                               |
|        22 | Manipur                       | Constituted                                                               |
|        23 | Meghalaya                     | Not applicable                                                            |
|        24 | Mizoram                       | Not applicable                                                            |
|        25 | Nagaland                      | Not applicable                                                            |
|        26 | Odisha                        | Constituted                                                               |
|        27 | Pondicherry                   | Constituted at State level                                                |
|        28 | Punjab                        | Constituted                                                               |
|        29 | Rajasthan                     | Constituted at State and District Level                                   |
|        30 | Sikkim                        | Constituted                                                               |
|        31 | Tamil Nadu                    | Constituted                                                               |
|        32 | Telangana                     | Constituted at State and District Level                                   |
|        33 | Tripura                       | Constituted at State Level                                                |
|        34 | Uttar Pradesh                 | Constituted at State and District Level                                   |
|        35 | Uttarakhand                   | Constituted at State and District Level                                   |
|        36 | West Bengal                   | Constituted                                                               |