Goa govt seeks relaxation for declaring scheduled areas

24 May 2018 08:03 PM

Many of the Union government’s schemes for the tribal people do not reach them in Goa for lack of fulfillment of a conditon. It requires clusters of villages to have minimum 4000 population to be declared as scheduled areas. Goa faces the hurdle because Goa’s villages are small. Hence Goa government has requested the union Tribal Welfare Department to relax the requirement and make it 2000 population per village.



Tribal Welfare Minister Govind Gaude was speaking to reporters after inaugurating the office of Goa State Scheduled Tribes Finance and Development Corporation Ltd at old collectorate building in Margao on Thursday.



Reporter: Sandeep Tuenkar | Editing: Bhakti Pai Balgi



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