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25- POINT TRIBAL DEVELOPMENT PACKAGE

PROGRESS REPORT AS ON 20-10-2003

Point	Progress
1( a). 500 Junior Basic Schools in ADC area which do not have any pucca building at present would be provided with a pucca building by the year 2002 AD.	The list of 600 J.B. Schools located within ADC area has been prepared and given to DMs for construction of OBB buildings. The progress so far achieved is as below :
	Sl	Implementing agency	Completed	In progress
	1	DM,North	95	03
	2	DM,Dhalai	93	Nill
	3	DM,West	152	06
	4	DM,South	123	45
	5	ADC (own fund & BADP)	131	08
	6	PWD	04	20
	Total		598	82
1.(b) Also 244 JB Schools of ADC which have only one teacher at present would be provided with at least another teacher by December, 1999.	Double teachers have been posted in most of the single teacher schools. There are 75 schools having single teacher due to some unavoidable circumstances.

Point	Progress
2. Six residential schools exclusively for tribal students of class VI to class XII would be set up in the State at Khumulwong, Ambassa, Kumarghat, Kanchanpur, Birchandra Manu and Karbook by the year 2001. These residential schools would be of the highest standard and would be managed by the Tripura Tribal Welfare Residential Schools Society, an autonomous body under the Tribal Welfare Department.	Progress in respect of establishment of 6(six) Ashram/Residential Schools exclusively for tribal students of class VI to class XII is as under:-
	Sl	Name of school	Construction position	Remarks
	1.	Khumulwng ( 420 seated)	i).Construction of ground floor of main school building completed. Construction work was assigned to TTAADC. ii) 2 OBB type building for Kitchen - Dinning Hall and staff barrack is completed and now being used. ii) Site for Boys & Girls Hostel have been handed over. Work is being taken up by PWD. iii) Fund for Rs. 7.00 lakhs for water supply was placed with Rig Division, PHE.	School 0pened in the month of July, 2002. The school is now functioning with 70 boys and 70 girls’ students.
	2.	Ambassa ( 300 seated)	i) Construction work of School building is completed. Constn of boys hostel completed & girls hostel will be completed within March-04.	At present school is functional and inaugurated on 12/09/03.
	3	Kumarghat ( 420 seated)	i) Work started by NBCC Ltd. Through PWD. Constn of Girls’ & Boys’ hostel are in progress.	Constn. Of main school building not yet started.
	4	Kanchanpur ( 100 seated)	Construction work assigned to PWD.Construction of main school building completed and Girls &l Boys hostel about to be completed	The school would be made functional during 2003-04. Written test for admission had already been conducted.
	5	B.C.Manu ( 420 seated)	School building & girls hostel completed. Boys’ hostel under progress.	At present school is functional and inaugurated on 06/08/03..
	6	Karbook ( 100 seated)	Fund for Rs. 50.00 lakhs as Central share received. PWD is executing the work. 50 seated boys hostel- foundation work in progress 50 seated girls hostel- tender under progress	Work in progress.

Five schools, one in each District and two in West Tripura District, which have sizable number of tribal students and have hostel facilities would be developed as centres of excellence for promoting sports and athletics amongst the tribal students.

The following five Schools have been developed as center of excellence for promoting sports & athletics

Sl.No.	Name of the School	Discipline identified	No. of PI/ Coaches posted	Sports equipment supplied	Construction work done	Achievements
1	MTB Girls’ HS School	Kabaddi TT Judo	3	Weighing machine, TT board & ball, 50 judo mattress & judo dress.	Lighting arrangement in TT hall, fitting of ceiling fans	5- girls secured medal in last NE- sports festival. National level school meet secured III position in judo,.
2	Tulashikhar HS School	Athletics Football Weight lifting	3	Stop watch, Weighing machine, starting block. Hurdles, jebline, shotput, discus, jersey, football boot, high jump stand & take off board.	Foot ball goal post of GI pipe, football net, football, development of play ground- at a cost Rs.2,00,000/-, construction of sports hall at a cost of Rs.7,05,000/-.	Participated in district level meet

3	Kulai HS School	Football Athletics Swimming TT	3		Stop watch, Weighing machine, TT board & ball, starting block, Hurdles, jebline, discus, shotput jersey, football boot, take off board, swimming costume.	Swimming pool constructed at the cost of Rs.3,23,000/- development of play ground at the cost of Rs.1,23,000/-,	Participated in State level and District level.
4	Kanchanpur HS School	Judo Athletics Football	3		Football boot & ball, Stop watch, Weighing machine, starting block Hurdles, jebline, high jump stand, take off board.	Sports hall under completion (estimated cost Rs.17,80,000/-), development of play ground at the cost of Rs.1,11,000/-	Participated in National Level meet in judo. Constn. Of Indoor Stadium cum Sports Centre at KCP- H/S – work in progress
5	Chatakcharri	Football Judo Athletics	3		Judo mattress & dress, Weighing machine, starting block, Hurdles, jebline, discus, shotput, jersey, foorball boot, high jump stand, take off board.	Sports hall at cost of Rs.7,66,000/-, Hon’ble Chief Minister inaugurated it on 19/4/2001, development of play ground Rs. 2,48,000/-
4.(a) At least one hostel for tribal students of degree Colleges would be set up in each District at Agartala, Udaipur, Kamalpur and Dharmanagar by December,2000 AD.				All of the hostels are made functional.

4 (b). In addition, one hostel for tribal women students will be set up at Agartala.

One hostel for Tribal women students at Suparibagan, Krishnanagar, Agartala could not be started due to non availability of land. A new site has been selected at old Sanskrit College premises for this purpose. Accordingly possession of the proposed land has been taken over. THB has been entrusted with construction works.

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Progress

5. Vocational Training centres for tribal students, one in each District at Dharmanagar, (North Tripura ), Bishramganj (West Tripura ), Udaipur (South Tripura) and Kulai (Dhalai) would be made functional by December,99. Three more Vocational Training Centres would be setup at Tulasikhar, Mandai and Rupaichari. In each of these centres, 50 tribal youth would be imparted Vocational Training per centre in important employment oriented trades with the help of Union Govt.

5 (five) Vocational Training Centres at Dharmanagar (North), Kulai (Dhalai), Bisramganj (West), Mandai (West) and Udaipur (South) have already been made functional with a capacity of 50 each. 3(three) more vocational training centres at Tulashikhar (West), Bagafa & Rupaichari (South) are also functioning at present.

6(a). Special coaching centre for Madhyamik drop-out tribal students with 100 students capacity will be setup in each District.
Special coaching centres for Madhyamik drop out tribal students have been opened in all districts details of which are as follows ;-
Sl	District	1998-99		1999-2000			2000-01			2001-02			2002- 03
	District	Total	Passed	Total	Centre	Passed	Total	Centre	Passed	Centre	strength	Passed	Centre	Strength	Appeared	Passed
1	West	378	208	971	24	476	1410	37	604	16	1153	480	43	1513	330	275
2	South	219	15	471	11	367	271	08	162	8	309	169	11	283	283	182 50
3	Dhalai	24	04	110	04	49	156	06	98	3	120	83	4	106	87	182 50
4	North	-	-	166	03	76	266	06	133	4	103	56	3	134	117	52 559
TOTAL		621	227	1718	42	963	2103	57	997	31	1685	788	61	2036	817	52 559
TOTAL		621	227	1718	42	963	2103	57	997	31	1685	788	61

Point	Progress
6(b). In addition study circle for coaching of the meritorious tribal students for appearing in the examinations of class XII and the JEE will be setup in each district. Both Special Coaching Centre and Study Circle will be established by December,99.		One study circle is functioning at Agartala. Performance of the Study Circle for last 2(two) years is as follows:-
		Year	Appeared JEE		Selected
		1999-2000	29		09
		2000-2001	10		01
		2001-2002	24		NA
		One study Circle also established at Udaipur, details of which is as follows :
		Year	Appeared JEE	Selected
		2001-2002	06	05
		One study affairs cell has been setup in the Tripura University to provide information to all students about availability of professional opportunities out side the State.

6 (C ). Apart from them, 100 tribal students from outlying schools will be given coaching every year at Agartala for JEE from 1999 onwards.	Coaching provided for JEE is as follows :-
				Name of Centre			Year			No. of Students		Selected
	TTWREIS			Agartala			1998-99			42		11
				Hindi H/S School			1999-2000			76		24
							2000-2001			82		57
	U.K.Academy						2001-2002			44		34
	Udaipur						2001-2002			06		5
	U.K.Academy						2002- 2003			64		55
7. Minimum 25 meritorious tribal students would be sent for coaching outside the State to appear in the Civil Service Examination (IAS ,IPS etc.) conducted by the UPSC with the help of Government of India.
Arrangement for coaching of meritorious tribal students made as under :
Name of Institute		1998-99			1999-2000			2000-01			2001-02			2002- 03
		IAS/IPS etc.	MBA		IAS/IPS etc.	MBA		IAS/IPS etc.	MBA		IAS/ IPS etc.		MBA	IAS/ IPS etc.	MBA
SN Dasgupta College, Delhi		15	-		03	03		-	-		-
Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, Agartala.		-	-		05	-		25	02		-		06	02

Point		Progress
8. Integrated Area Based Projects would be taken up for comprehensive development of 25 most backward tribal areas of the State. The following 15 Special Area Based Projects were taken up:
Sl	Name of Project		Physical achievement	Name of District
1.	Tekka Tulsi		882 families	Tripura(S)
2.	East Daluma &Paharpur		747 families	-do-
3.	Kaptali		237 families	-do-
4.	Chelagang		667 families	-do-
5.	Kambukcherra		283 families	Tripura (W)
6.	Atharamura		550 families	-do-
7.	Khengrai & Harbang		349 families	-do-
8.	Pramodenagar, Amarendranagar & Pathaliaghat		2769 families	-do-
9.	Namanjoy,Tuichingram, Premsingnagar & Badlabari		1534 families	-do-
10.	Rajkandi-Demdum		145 families	Tripura (N)
11.	Longai Valley Phase – II		390 families	-do-
12.	Dashamanipara		637 families	-do-
13.	Ratannagar & Tuichakma		621 families	Dhalai
14.	Rajdhar & Malidhar		1062 families	-do-
15.	Jeolcherra		686 families	-do-
TOTAL			11559 families

9. The State Govt. with the help of ADC, Rubber Board , Coffee Board and Tea Board will raise 5000 Hectares of Rubber , 500 hectares of Coffee and 1500 hectares of Tea plantations benefiting a minimum of 5000, 500 and 1500 families respectively by the year 2002.	The progress and particulars of ST beneficiaries of Rubber, Tea and Coffee based plantations are as under: -
	Sl	Name of Deptt.	Rubber		Tea		Coffee
	Sl	Name of Deptt.	Area (in ha.)	Family	Area (in ha.)	Family	Area (in ha.)	Family
	1	Tribal Welfare	2119.00	2119	322.37	589	211.96	723
	2	TTAADC	1500.00	1500	-	-	-	-
	3	Rubber Board	692.40	619	-	-	-	-
	4	RD	-	-	1337.10	1625	-	-
	5	TRPC Ltd.	837.00	905	-	-	-	-
	6	TFDPC Ltd.	192.20	123	-	-	-	-
	7	Coffee Board/TWDeptt.	-	-	-	-	50.00	32
	8	I&C Deptt.			2562.00	2683
	TOTAL		5349.60	5266	4221.47	3897	261.96	755

Point			Progress
10. At least 50% of the MI Schemes would be taken up in tribal areas during the next four years . A minimum of 4000 ha. Of irrigation potential would be created in tribal areas through MI Schemes / Pick up weirs, earthen /RCC dams etc. during the next four years.					Department			Achievement
			1. PWD					4725 ha.
			2. TTAADC					730 ha.
			3. Agriculture					1319 ha.
			4. RD.					3109 ha.
			TOTAL					9883 ha.
			A total of 9883 ha. Irrigation potential was created in the last three years. Target has already been exceeded.
11. At least 2000 tribal youth would be assisted under self-employment programmes during the next four years.	TW Department in collaboration with NABARD and TSIC Ltd. has organised 2 (two) weeks training under EDP and covered 300 educated unemployed Tribal youth in 10(ten) batches. Detail of ST persons who have got assistance so far is as follows: -
	Sl			Department					Assisted persons
	1			ST Corporation					720
	2			Industry & Commerce					145
	3			TIDC					15
	4			RD					18494 (IRDP/SGSY)
	Total								19374
	Hon’ble Chief Minister has launched "SWAVALAMBAN", a Self Employment Generation Programme for the unemployed youth of the State on 19^th July, 2001. In different training programme either in skill development or EDP as many as 51 ST youth have so far been benefited. Many more ST youth will be benefited.
12. All the ST Vacancies available in the State Govt., where suitable candidates are available, would be filled up by 2002 AD.		65 Head of the Departments have furnished report on the vacancy position to GAD. Accordingly 915 posts out of 8031 vacant posts reserved for ST in different Departments have so far been filled up since announcement of the Package. GAD is monitoring the filling up of vacancies in all Departments.
13. A minimum of 1000 Tribal Women’s Thrift and Credit Groups would be formed in the State by the year 2002 for economic empowerment of women		Details of women thrift & credit Groups are as follows :
						Sl	Name of implementing agency			Number of SHG formed
		1					Development Unit .			145
		2					I.H.D.P.			102
		3					T.W. Deptt.			156
		4					RD			535
		TOTAL								938

Point	Progress
15. Every Tribal hamlet (para) would be provided with one safe drinking water source by the year 2001 .		There are no not covered paras in North, South, West Tripura & Dhalai. All paras are partly or full covered.
14. Priority will be given to Jhumia families in all the above programmes.		District wise details of hard-core jhumia families are as under:-
			Sl	District	No of hard-core Jhumia families
			1	South Tripura	15854
			2	North Tripura	7590
			3	Dhalai	16049
			4	West Tripura	10307
		TOTAL			49800
		Tribal Welfare Department always giving priority to jhumia families in all related Schemes.

16. All the important tribal markets which are not connected by road at present would be connected by fair weather road by the year 2002 . In particular, the following 27( twenty seven) most important roads / bridges connecting the most backward villages of the State would be completed by 2002 AD.

The synopsis as achieved by PWD is as under :

Length of Road under PWD - 453.27 Kms. Formation completed – 424.30 Kms.

Soling - 328.20Kms

Metalling - 111.00 Kms.

Carpetting - 96.00 Kms.

Length of Road under BRO - 209.10 Kms.

Total Length - 662.37 Kms.

17(a). At least 50 most backward tribal villages in the State which do not have electricity at present, would be provided with electricity connection including non-conventional sources by the year 2002.	District wise achievement towards providing with electricity connection is as below :
	Name of District	Number of villages
	WEST TRIPURA	36
	SOUTH TRIPURA	22
	NORTH TRIPURA	17
	DHALAI	12
	TOTAL	87

Point Point	Progress
17(b). 17(b) In addition all Dumbur Oustees, wherever they are, will be covered under Kutir Jyoti programme.	A list of 500 Dumbur Oustee families supplied to the Power Department. The Department has given connection to 139 families who do not have power connection under Kutirjyuti Programme.

18. At least 10,000 Tribal families would be provided dwelling houses by the year2002 AD.	Details of houses constructed under IAY for ST families is as under: -
	West Tripura
	North Tripura	7081
	Dhalai	3434
	South Tripura	10092
	TOTAL	27745
	The target for providing houses to 10,000 (ten thousand) S.T. families had already been achieved during the year 1999-2000 itself. However, the programme will continue considering its great importance with a view to cover many more families.

19(a). A tribal Museum would be setup at Khumulwung by the year 2000 AD.	Sanction has been received from G.O.I for Rs. 54.50 lakhs for construction of one Tribal Museum at Khumulwung. 75% of construction work completed.
19(b). A State level tribal cultural festival would be held every year from 1999.	TRI has been entrusted with the responsibility for organising State level Tribal cultural festival with the assistance from the ICAT Deptt. TRI and Sports & Youth Affairs Deptt. is jointly organising youth festivals regularly.

20. Linguistic centre would be setup under Tribal research Institute of the State Govt. by December, 2000 AD for research and development of tribal languages.

The construction of cultural centre at Krishnanagar had been completed and was inaugurated on 27-09-2000 by the Chief Minister.

One Project for an amount of Rs.28.00 lakhs, with a view to set up of one linguistic centre under TRI, has been prepared and sent to GOI. One more proposal also sent to the Deptt. of Culture, GOI. Action Plan is being prepared for linguistic centre. Union Govt. is yet to release any fund. In the maen time a Statutory Body has been constituted for preparing status report, grammer, dictionary etc.

22. Working knowledge of Kokborak would be imparted to all the field level officials of the Tripura Govt.	Kokborak coaching has already been conducted for the Ministers and high Officials at Agartala. 12 more such centres opened covering all the Districts of the State. At present 6 (Six) NGOs have been selected for Kokborak coaching at Agartala, Udaipur and Kailashahar.
Point	Progress
21. The names of tribal villages rivers etc. which originally had tribal names but were given other names later on, would be renamed after the original tribal names by December,1999.	State Government has approved the change of 95 names. Necessary Govt. order had been issued on 31-10-2000. Accordingly District Administration & Education Deptt. have taken steps and renamed after the original names.

23. Comprehensive master plans would be initiated for overall development of Unakoti, Chaturdas Devatabari and Pillak.

Department of ICAT had finalised the master plan for Unakoti, Chaturdash Devatabari and Pillak. Cafeteria, Yatrika, Sulabh Souchagar and open air stage at Chaturdash Devatabari have been made functional. GOI sanctioned Rs. 53.81 lakhs for integrated development. Out of which Rs. 16.14 lakhs has been released as first installment.

MOTA, GOI sanctioned Rs. 50 lakhs for over all development of Unakoti, out of which Rs. 40 lakhs has been released as first installment. Flood lighting and yard lighting have been extended. Other works in progress. ASI taken up construction of one site museum and steps are being taken for maintenance and preservation of architectural remains.

There is a proposal for development of Pilak as a Buddhist Heritage Centre. Steps are being taken by ASI for maintenance and preservation of architectural remains as well as for setting up a site museum. One Cafeteria has already been set up. One cottage for accommodation of tourists is under construction.

24.(a). The Sub-Divisional hospitals at Kanchanpur,Chailengta and Gandacherra would be made 50 bedded and minimum required specialists	Medical Officers (MO) with P.G. Degree /Diploma holding, posted in the Sub-Divisional Hospitals, covering streams as mentioned below:-
	Sub-Divisonal Hospital	Sanctioned Strength of MO	MO	Gyno.	Pedi.	Dentist	ENT	General Medicine
	Kanchanpur	10	5	NIL	NIL	1	1	NIL
	Chailengta	10	2	NIL	NIL	1	NIL	NIL
	Gandacherra	10	6	NIL	NIL	1	NIL	NIL

Point	Progress
will be provided by 2000 AD.	Ambulances were provided to Kanchanpur and Gandachera Hospitals and one Maruti Gypsy is available for Chailengta Hospital. At Kanchanpur one 'X'-ray, one ultrasonography machine is already installed and one ECG machine was supplied. Supplied one 'X'-ray, one ultrasonography and one ECG Machine to Chailengta and one 'X'-ray, one ultrasonography machine is already installed and one ECG machine was supplied to Gandachera Hospital . Detailed bed strength of the hospitals are as follows :-
	NAME	AS ON 26.01.99	PROPOSED	PRESENT	STATUS
	KANCHANPUR	30	50	50	FUNCTIONING
	CHAILENGTA	10	50	50	FUNCTIONING
	GANDACHERRA	30	50	50	FUNCTIONING

24.(b). In addition at least 10 new primary health centers will be setup in the tribal areas by 2000 AD.	Present status of 10(ten) new PHCs are as follows:-
	Sl		Name of PHC		Present status.
	1.		Mandai		Functioning
	2.		Dayarambari		OPD functioning, Main building occupied by CRPF.
	3.		Tulasikher		Functioning as new norm PHC
	4.		Machmarra		Functioning
	5.		Rupaichari		Functioning as new norm PHC
	6.		Khedacherra		Functioning as new norm PHC
	7.		Salema		Functioning as new norm PHC
	8.		Thalcherra		Site for construction shifted to Harinachera
	9.		Ganganagar		Functioning as new norm PHC
	10.		Jagabandhupara		Functioning as new norm PHC
	T.W. Deptt. had placed fund for Rs. 50 lakhs for construction of PHCs at Ganganagar, Jagabandhupara and Thalcherra. Details of 2 more PHCs are as follows: -
	Sl	Name of PHC		Construction done by		Present status
	1.	Ampura		TTAADC		Functioning as new norm PHC
	2.	Behalabari		RD.Deptt.		Construction yet not completed
	Above 2 (two) PHCs have been incorporated as desired by the CEM, TTAADC in the review meeting held on 29.02.2000.

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Progress

25. A comprehensive health project will be taken up for PG Tribes by the year 2000AD with the help of Government of India.

The ICMR, New Delhi has sanctioned two project for health for PT Group (Reangs). Baseline survey was completed in the month of December,1999 covering 29960 PG Tribes population spread over 31 GPs under Kanchanpur Project and 31010 PG Tribes population spread over 47 GPs under Dhalai Project.

One 60 Community health workers and 60 Dhais were selected for each of the project from the locality and adequately trained by Medical Officers. All of them have been supplied health kits (twelve types of medicine, by-cycle, uniforms, torch light, identity card etc. by the ICMR. The ICMR has so far placed a fund of Rs.33.15Llacs for both the projects as far pattern of projects two societies have also been formed and a corpus fund has also been built for each of the project with Rs. 15 Lacs each. The interest from the corpus fund are being used by the Societies for meeting cost of transportation of seriously ill patients and providing emergent medicines etc.