“ANNUAL LEARNING EVENT’
C.A. IPAP Partners 15-17 May 2013
Center for Dalit Studies
Advocacy on implementation process of
Scheduled Castes Sub Plan (SCSP) – A pilot
project in the state of Andhra Pradesh through
capacity
building
and
stake
holders
participation
Operational Area
Year 2
(2010-Mar,
2011)
Year 3
(2011-Mar,
2012)
Year 4
(2012-Mar,
2013)
Total as on
Mar.2013
No. of States
1
1
1
1
No. of Districts
5
5
5
5
No. of Blocks/Taluk
5
5
5
5
No. of Gram
Panchayats
20
20
20
20
No. of Villages
38
38
38
38
-
-
Coverage Details
No. of slums/urban
settlements
-
Demography Profile
(Coverage of House Holds)
Yr.2
Particulars
Dalits
Adivasis
Muslims
PWD
Urban poor
OBC
Others
***
Total
HH
5144
Yr.3
Popn
Male
Female
36290
5144
HH
36290
Yr. 4
Popn
Male
Female
5144
36290
HH
5144
Total
Popn
Male
Female
36290
5144
HH
5144
Popn
Male
Female
36290
5144
Achievement
Goal :
1.
Empowerment of 4000 SC families through SCP, rights and
entitlement by building people’ institutions and advocacy, research in
20 Gram Panchyats in 5 districts of the state of Andhra Pradesh, with
focus on telangana region for paradigm shift in rights, livelihoods
Indicator
1.
2.
3.
Number of Advocacy efforts undertaken
No of new GOs or circulars issued due to efforts of the project
Number of parties pledging support for the SCP and Nodal
Agency
Contd…
Purpose
To Ensure 75% of SCP reaches to the SC families in the project villages
by building synergies between community and executive& political
power through a rights based people institutions advocacy
Yr2
Yr3
Yr4
1. Campaign-media, political
parties, other concerned
groups.
1. Constituted Cabinet sub
committee. GO
Ms no 1640 issued
1. Historical Special sessions
of the Assembly - ACT
passed.
2. CPI,CPI(M), TRS and BJP
parties raised the issue in
Assembly
2. Constructive support in
Assembly
2. New schemes
introduced.
3. Issue went to masses
3. Monitoring systems
under process
Contd...
Output 1:
Sensitization of youth,
employees, students on SCP,
rights and
entitlements.
Yr 2
Yr 3
Yr 4
Started the
campaign among
the communities
and other
concerned groups
The issue went to the
masses in depth and the
youth started questioning
the officials
ACT achieved and
started working on
monitoring of
implementation
process.
Capacity building
efforts initiated
through trainings,
booklets, RTI,
pamphlets and
meetings
State level, district level
meetings organised with
subject experts and retired
officials. Special TV LIVE
discussions were
organised.
The capacitisation of
the target groups
was one of the
driving forces in
achieving the ACT
Output 2:
Through People Institutions
and capacities of groups,
entitlements under SCP and
under SCP focus on
Education and Health
(capacity building is the focus)
is attained as per need and
micro-plan.
Output 3
Civil society
organization
synergies /
LINKAGES
with
government
for policy
ADVOCACY
is carried
out.
Yr 2
Yr 3
lobbying
started for
policy
advocacy with
political groups
and civil
society groups.
Meetings with officials and
ministers conducted. NGOs, Dalit
groups, Tribal groups and other
mass organisations were active.
Civil society groups and other dalit
organisations played key role by
organising Chalo Hyderabad and
Massive deeksha for 72 hours
Yr 4
The civil society
groups put pressure
on the government
for the ACT. Many
write ups appeared
in media by subject
experts.
What we expected and what we achieved
Sl No
What we did
What we achieved
1
Demanded for a special sessions of
the Assembly to discuss dalt/adivasi
issues
Initially denied by the speaker and
subsequently conducted special
sessions
2
We demanded for an ACT
We achieved it
3
We demanded for autonomous
status to Nodal agency
We achieved it
4
We expected the support of all the
political parties
We got it
5
We expected the involvement of the
Media and their support
Overwhelming response and
support from media
6
We wanted to carry all the civil
society /dalit/adivasi groups in the
whole campaign
We are successful in bringing all the
groups to a common platform
Significant Changes brought by IPAP project
1.
At Community level:
Created awareness on SC/ST sub plans to dalit Youth, community elders, Key
stake holders and women. SC/ST welfare associations are motivated. Now,
people are alert and aware.
1.
At Project Covering Area level :
Awareness camps conducted at village level. People questioned the government
officials and elected leaders directly on SC/ST funds diversion.
1.
At District Level:
The officials at district level are sensitised about SC/ST Sub Plans. Civil society
groups became very active. District administration started preparing the
schemes department wise.
1.
At State level:
The Andhra Pradesh government passed the SC, ST Sub plan ACT, which came
into effect from 24-01-2013. The ACT is first of its kind in the country was
passed through Special Sessions of Assembly & Council. Nodal agency and State
Development Council formed. Four Gos issued on implementation guidelines.
Policy changes
I.
The Andhra Pradesh government made an ACT on 24-01-2013 to
implement SC, ST Sub plans. This ACT is first of its kind in the
country and was passed by historical special sessions of both the
Houses of Assembly and Council.
II.
The AP government constituted separate Nodal agencies for
SCs/STs with Social Welfare/Tribal Welfare Ministers as Chairmen.
Special Finance secretary is appointed in the nodal agency with
Budget Release Order powers.
Setting up of the State Development Council for SCs & STs Sub
plan implementation headed by the Chief Minister. The members
from civil society will be taken as members in the state
development council
Key Lessons Learnt
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Coordinating and bringing all the political party leaders and Media
together on one platform to raise the voice. Involved all the
stakeholders at various levels in the campaign.
Committed staff and knowledgeable Advisory board members.
Media Advocacy (Live Discussions by the TV chennels on SC/ST Sub
Plan, especially HMTV and Sakshi TV Channels). Editorials on the
issue in all the leading daily news papers including English dailies.
Meaningful and active support of all the political parties and Media.
a) Consistently motivating the concerned people b) RTI act as tool
for data collection c) Documenting the efforts made
Working with Inclusive policy in bringing all the stake holders
together to a common platform for the success of the ACT.
Increased Budgetary Allocations
2011-12
2012-13
7233.35
8000
8585
2100
2500
3666
2013-14
7
Allocation
(SCSP)
Allocation
(TSP)
Impact beyond project
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Monitoring the reach of SCSP funds to the needy, prevention of diversion
and lapsing of funds meant for SCs & STs.
Complete utilization of funds meant under different schemes to the target
groups.
Closely working with local communities to access the benefits which are
allocated under SCSP. Formation of monitoring committees at all levels to
over see the progress of the implementation part of SCSP.
Sensitization of media at all India level on SCSP/TSP ACT to be more
alert.
Campaign at national level for uniform policy by enacting an ACT in the
Parliament. Strengthening the civil societies, community based
organizations, Stake Holders on SCSP budget allocations and utilizations.
Impact of the ACT
I.
New Schemes introduced.
II.
Doubled the scholarships for the Students
III.
Ten lakh grant to students going abroad for further studies
IV.
V.
Indiramma houses cost increased to Rs one lakh from Rs 65,000;
Free power to dalits below 50 units
VI.
Construction of 300 new hostels accommodating 75,000 fresh students,
VII.
Purchase of land cost increased from Rs one lakh to Rs five lakhs etc
Display Materials

Material for political parties Round Table Conference.

Strategies for effective implementation of SCSP/TSP

ACT copy of AP

Cabinet Sub Committee Report on SCSP/TSP

Other Documents on SCSP/TSP
SC,ST committee report hailed THE Hans INDIA
Hyderabad: Intellectuals and representatives of SC and ST organisations
hailed the State government for announcing that it will confer legal
status to the SC/ST sub plan to ensure proper utilisation of funds.
Former Chief Secretary and Chairman of the JAC of sub plan
implementation K Madhava Rao said that after the land struggle, the
movement launched by SC organisations for their rights and on the sub
plans was adjudged a ‘historical’ in the country. The organisations
succeeded in convincing the government to give statutory status to the
sub plan.
Dalit Bahujan Front president Vinay Kumar pointed out that the
government made only promises on constituting a nodal agency to
oversee the implementation of sub plan in 2007, but no efforts were
made so far. This resulted in the funds getting diverted to other
departments, he added.
JAC Members with
Deputy Chief Minister
Senior Journalist, Mallepalli Laxmaiah said he hoped that the
government will fulfill the dreams of SC and ST communities by giving
legal status to the sub plan and ensure that benefits of the schemes reach
to all needy in time. He also wanted to punish the officials who
misappropriated the funds. Kula Vivaksha Vyatireka Porata Samithi,
general secretary John Wesley demanded the government to convene
special meetings regularly to find any irregularities in the
implementation of the sub plan.
Former MLA K Lingaiah, lauded the State government for accepting
the demand to constitute a Cabinet Sub Committee to study the
implementation of sub plan and its assurance to give legal status to it.
Earlier, the SC organisation leaders met Deputy Chief Minister and Sub
Committee, chiarman, D Raja Narasimha and congratulated him for
successfully completing its study on sub plan and for submitting the
report to the government on time.
Media workshop on
Implementation on
SCSP,
K R Venugopal, IAS
(Rtd) former
Secretary to Prime
Minister of India
addressing on SCSP
Mallepalli Laxmaiah
founder chairman,
CDS addressing to
media people on
SCSP
Discussion on Implementation of SCSP with Media
Mallepalli Laxmaiah speaking on SCSP Sri D Raja MP, CPI, addressing the media on SCSP
Prof. KS Chalam, speaking on SCSP
Ramchandramurthy, CEO, HM TV addressing
Presented a PPT on SCSP in the Conference Hall,
Legislative Assembly of A.P for SC & ST MLAs
and Ministers.
A Representation to Hon’ble Speaker, AP LA
A Representation to Governor with regard to the
implementation of SCSP & TSP making it mandatory
District level meetings on SCSP and TSP
Dr. YB Satyanarayana, addressing the representatives of various
NGOs and SC/ST associations of various districts
Round Table Conference on problems in the Social Welfare Hostels
Dr YB Satyanarayana addressing on
the problems of the students
Sri Varla Ramaiah (TDP) addressing
Interacting with the Dalits and explaining about the SCSP
Residents of the villages listening to participated in SCSP
An open well without fence
SHG women participated in SCSP
awareness camp
Chalo Assembly
CENTRE FOR DALIT STUDIES
(CDS)
HYDERABAD