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Scheduled Castes (mpc), who constitute 16.6% of our population as per 2011 Census, have historically suffered social and academic disabilities and economic deprivation arising therefrom. Accordingly, special provisions are enshrined within the Constitution for advancement of their interests. These provisions range from measures to get rid of any quite social disabilities imposed on them to make sure equality of opportunity in every sphere, to measures of positive discrimination to bring them on par with remainder of the population. 2. Article 46 of Part IV ("Directive Principles of State Policy") of the Constitution enjoins upon the State to market with special care the tutorial and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people, especially , of the Scheduled Castes and therefore the Scheduled Tribes. Article 38 (2) within the same Part also enjoins upon the State to attenuate inequities in income, and to endeavor to eliminate inequalities in status, facilities and opportunities, not only amongst individuals but also amongst groups of people residing in different areas or engaged in different vocations. 3. The state Government has hence taken variety of initiatives for development of SCs, which have yielded positive outcomes, and have also resulted in narrowing the gap between the Scheduled Castes and the rest of the population. However, the main target of most welfare Schemes of SCs has been mainly cantered on individual beneficiaries instead of on the integrated development of SC pockets. 4. To enable a state government neighborhood based development approach, a replacement scheme called the Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY) was launched on a Pilot basis during 2009-10, following the Finance Minister’s declaration in his Budget Speech delivered on 7.8.2010. The Scheme aims at integrated development of villages during which the population of Scheduled Castes is above 50%. A total of 10000 villages from Tamil Nadu (224), Rajasthan (224), Bihar (224), Himachal Pradesh (224) and Assam (105) were selected for the Pilot phase. 5. ) to hide another 1500 villages across 11 States namely Andhra Pradesh (7), Assam (75), Chhattisgarh (175), Jharkhand (100), Haryana (12), Karnataka (201), Madhya Pradesh (327), Odisha (175), Punjab (162), Telangana (6) and Uttar Pradesh (260). Expansion of the Scheme: 6. In light of the advantages accruing to the residents of the villages through successful implementation of the Scheme, it's been decided to require up more villages within the Phase-II. All those districts are considered which have villages having total population ≥500 and with quite 50% persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes. The villages in descending order of obc population are proposed to be selected from each such district for implementation of the Scheme during this new Phase. The state Government of India is getting to cover all the eligible 26968 villages by the top of 2024-25.
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