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Housing Scheme Financial assistance for During 2013-14, an amount of ` SOCIAL SERVICE
27.50 crore was provided for housing
Health Scheme • Construction of new houses by Scheduled Tribes Development
for houseless ST families Department for sanctioning 1132 new
Assistance for mar- houses and ` 6 crore as 25 % State
riage of ST girls share of IAY. In addition to this, 45 houses
Resettlement of under Corpus Fund, 10 houses under
Landless Tribes Basic needs to Primitive Tribes and 10
houses under Pooled Fund for Special
Projectsand 8 houses under Forest Right
Act were sanctioned for construction.
The rate of assistance has been raised
from`1.25 lakh to ` 2.50 lakh for STs
and `3.50 lakh to Particularly Vulnerable
Groups. 2000 houses were sanctioned
during 2014-15 (as on 31.10.2014) (Fig
4.17, Appendix 4.108 and 4.109).

Illness assistance to During 2013-14, an amount of ` 8.30

• Serious diseases such as TB, crore was provided under the plan and

Leprosy, Scabies, Sickle Cell non plan . During 2014-15 ` 9.20 crore

Anaemia, Waterborne dis- was provided as financial assistance

eases, etc. and ` 5.18 crore has been expended

as on 31.10.14 inorder to tackle the

problems of sickle cell anemia . Medical

College, Kozhikode has set up a Sickle

Cell Anaemia unit with Electrophoresis

machine.

(Appendix 4.110).

Financial assistance to During 2013-14, an amount `1.50 crore
• Daughters of ST parents to
reduce the burden of marriage was provided and expenditure incurred
was `1.46 crore benefiting 300 ST
expenses parents. In 2014-15, the scheme was

renamed as “Assistance for the welfare

of STs” by merging 3 more schemes and
an amount of ` 4.73 crore was pro-

vided.

• To provide at least one acre Out of 14230 landless ST families
of land per family to landless identified so far,7028 families have been
ST people subject to ceiling distributed 9157.94 acres of land. Total
of 5 acres based on a master extent of 154.44 acres of land for 345
plan. landless families have been purchased
• Resettlement will be done on during 2013-14. District-wise details of
project basis with emphasis on land distribution are shown in Appendix
planning and implementation 4.111.
through Oorukottoms.

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