SRIKAKULAM: SC, ST Commission chairman Karem Shivaji on Monday pulled up the Srikakulam district administration for slack implementation of the government welfare schemes for the beneficiaries.
At a coordination meeting of the chairman with all government departments at the collectorate to review the progress of welfare schemes, residents from Laxmipeta where five Dalits were killed during attacks by members of a BC community over land disputes in 2012, complained that the promises made by the government were yet to be fulfilled. Shivali asked collector P Lakshmi Narasimham to sort out all the issue in the next three months. With the Dalit families demanding jobs, he asked the DWAMA project director to generate employment from the very next day of the meeting.
The victims also brought to the notice of the commission that the special court proceedings to solve the ‘massacre’ was hit. with the staff having been on deputation. Shivaji asked the administration to revoke the deputations and ensure effective functioning of the court, with a rider to the police that the SC, ST atrocity cases be dealt with seriousness. He also pulled up Collector for not holding the mandatory half yearly meeting to review the progress of such cases. He asked collector to see that the backlog posts are filled by end of this month.