Except voter ID card, this tribal community has no essential documents to access welfare schemes

On October 7, these families reached the Zilla Parishad bureau successful Pune, demanding to beryllium officially included nether Bhorghar, which is conscionable 5 km from their existent settlement.

Rajendra Sawale, up-sarpanch of Bhorghar, said that generations of these families, since the 1980s, person been incapable to entree authorities payment schemes owed to the deficiency of indispensable documents similar commencement and decease certificates. “The lone papers we person is the elector ID card, which is utilized for elections. Some families negociate to entree PDS items from Bhorghar,” helium said.

Sawale emphasised that this contented highlights the challenges faced by the Katkari community, classified arsenic a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), successful accessing enactment from the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA). “MoTA has launched respective schemes for the payment of Scheduled Tribes, including Special Central Assistance to the Tribal Sub-Scheme, grants-in-aid nether Article 275(1) of the Constitution, and the improvement of PVTGs,” helium added.

Babban Pawar, who studied until Class 7, said that helium is simply a fisherman, but sportfishing is simply a seasonal job. “After the sportfishing season, we are near successful limbo, sometimes uncovering labour work, sometimes not. There are nary roads, nary education, nary admittance to ashram schools, and nary wellness facilities due to the fact that our colony is not officially registered nether immoderate village,” helium said.

Ganesh Mukane, 25, who besides works arsenic a fisherman, shared a akin story. He studied until the Class 4, and aft his parents passed away, helium couldn’t adjacent get their decease certificates. “We are surviving successful a Schedule V area, which is specially provisioned for tribal-dominant regions, but nary authorities authorization focuses connected america but during predetermination time,” helium said.

Pune Zilla Parishad CEO Santosh Patil explained that the remaining villagers, holding onshore parcels aft Ambegaon’s resettlement, are demanding to beryllium included nether Bhorghar colony to entree authorities facilities and amenities. “We submitted a connection to the higher authorities past year, but determination were immoderate queries. We complied and resubmitted the connection past month. The latest update is that the main caput of the Rural Development Department (RDD) has forwarded the connection to the ministry concerned,” Patil said.

“There is simply a anticipation of support tomorrow,” helium added.