The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has developed an online web-portal e-utthaan.gov.in for monitoring of Allocation for Welfare of Scheduled Castes. Similarly, Ministry of Tribal Affairs has developed the online web-portal stcmis.gov.in for monitoring of Allocation for Welfare of Scheduled Tribes.
As per Statement 10-A of the Budget Document for year 2of the allocation for welfare of Scheduled Castes is Rs. 52392.55 crore and allocation for Welfare of Scheduled Tribes is Rs. 31919.51 crore respectively which are 20.20% and 10.74% of the total allocation for Central Sponsored Schemes (CSS) and Centrally Sector Schemes (CSS) of the identified Schemes.
The Allocations to the different Ministries/Departments are based on a differentiated Ministry/Department-wise earmarking of Plan funds decided in the year 2010 by the erstwhile Planning Commission as per the details below:-
| Category | Scheduled Castes Sub Plan (SCSP) | Tribal Sub Plan (TSP) | ||
| Obligation to Earmark | No. of Ministries/ Departments | Obligation to Earmark | No. of Ministries/ Departments | |
| I | Nil | 43 | Nil | 40 |
| II | Less than 15% | 10 | Less than 7.5% | 13 |
| III | Between 15% & 16.2% | 09 | Betwen 7.5% & 8.2% | 10 |
| IV | More than 16.2% | 06 | More than 8.2% | 05 |
This information was given by Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Shri Ramdas Athawale in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.
