India 2018

554 India 2018
independent India resulting in historical injustice to them. The Act has been
notified for operation with effect from December 31, 2007.
Rules, for implementing the provisions of the Act, were notified in 2008
and they envisage the constitution of various Committees under the Act, viz,
the sub divisional level committee, district level committee and the state level
monitoring committee, by the state governments. All the states have been
requested to nominate the nodal officer for implementing the provisions of the
Act. The state governments were also requested to take necessary steps to ensure
that awareness is created about the objectives, provisions and procedures of
the Act and the Rules through various measures including awareness
programmes and printed material such as posters in the regional languages;
ensure the translation and publication of the Act and the Rules in all the regional
languages and arrange to distribute to all gram sabhas, forest right committees
and all departments of the government including panchayati raj, rural
development, tribal and social welfare and forest departments; undertake the
orientation of officials, civilian representative and non-Governmental
organizations in the State, who can then be called upon to assist as resource
persons in the awareness programmes; and sensitize the sub-divisional and
district level committees on the objectives, provisions and procedures of the
Act and the Rules.
As per the Act, the responsibility for recognition and vesting of forest
rights and distribution of land rights rests with the state government. All the
state governments have been directed that the entire process of vesting of forest
rights as per the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers
(Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 should be completed at the earliest.
Web-based MIS for online monitoring of the implementation of the Act has
been made operational from 2008 for testing purposes on website http://
www.tribal.gov.in. However, final website would be operational which is at
present under process of getting security-audit clearance.
Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana
The central government launched an approach, namely, "Vanbandhu Kalyan
Yojana" (VKY) with a view to translate the available resource into overall
development of tribal population with an outcome-based orientation. The VKY
has been adopted as a strategic process. It aims at creating enabling environment
for need based and outcome oriented holistic development of tribal people.
This process envisages to ensure that all the intended benefits of goods and
services under various programmes / schemes of central as well as state
governments actually reach the target groups by convergence of resources
through appropriate institutional mechanism.
Umbrella Scheme for Education of ST Children
The Ministry is re-engineering its educational schemes with the objective of
providing adequate educational infrastructure for STs and incentive for