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 2017-18, 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.
