Wayanad becomes first district to provide basic documents to all tribal people

Subject: Polity

Section: Constitution

Concept:

Kerala’s Wayanad becomes the first district in the country to provide basic documents and facilities such as Aadhaar cards, ration cards, birth/death certificates, election ID cards, bank accounts.
Apart from the basic documents, other services such as income certificates, ownership certificates, age certificates, and applications for new pensions are also provided at the camps.

Akshaya Big Campaign for Document Digitisation (ABCD) campaign.

The Wayanad district administration has attained the meritorious achievement by providing 1,42,563 services to as many as 64,670 tribal beneficiaries as part of the Akshaya Big Campaign for Document Digitisation (ABCD) campaign.
This includes ration cards to 15,796 families, Aadhar cards to 31,252, birth certificates to 11,300, voters’ identity cards to 22,488 and digital locker facilities to 22,888 persons through the ABCD campaign.
The drive was launched in November 2021 at Thondarnadu grama panchayat.
The campaign is aimed at ensuring basic documents to all citizens belonging to the Scheduled Tribes communities and these documents are digitalised and saved in DigiLocker accounts opened for them.

Concept –

Educational & Cultural Safeguards

15(4):-Special provisions for advancement of other backward classes(which includes STs);
29:- Protection of Interests of Minorities (which includes STs);
46:– The State shall promote, with special care, the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people, and in particular, of the Scheduled Castes, and the Scheduled Tribes, and shall protect them from social injustice and all forms of exploitation.
350:-Right to conserve distinct Language, Script or Culture;
350:- Instruction in Mother Tongue.

Social Safeguard

23:- Prohibition of traffic in human beings and beggar and other similar form of forced labour;
24:- Forbidding Child Labour.

Economic Safeguards

244:-Clause(1) Provisions of Fifth Schedule shall apply to the administration & control of the Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes in any State other than the states of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura which are covered under Sixth Schedule, under Clause (2) of this Article.
275:-Grants in-Aid to specified States (STs&SAs) covered under Fifth and Sixth Schedules of the Constitution.

Political Safeguards

164(1):- Provides for Tribal Affairs Ministers in Bihar, MP and Orissa;
330:-Reservation of seats for STs in Lok Sabha;
337- Reservation of seats for STs in State Legislatures;
334:-10 years period for reservation (Amended several times to extend the period.);
243:-Reservation of seats in Panchayats.
371:-Special provisions in respect of NE States and Sikkim

Service Safeguards