While during Congress tenure in government a number of welfare schemes for SCs/STs were implemented, BJP-led NDA government did not care to continue the same work much less extend it further. The Indian Constitution has provided adequate protective, positive discrimination for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Any government is under an obligation to ameliorate the conditions of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes by making suitable provisions for their education, employment and social justice. Congress government implemented the special scheme of SCP for achieving above objective. Unfortunately under the NDA regime, real per capita budgetary allocation for total SC/ST welfare declined from Rs. 39.2 in 2002-2003 to Rs. 36.9 in 2003-2004. Apart from decreasing funding, the Vajpayee government was a mute spectator when VHP and Bajrang Dal people were massacring Dalits in Jhajjar, Haryana and other parts of country. This by itself confirms that BJP-led NDA government ignored welfare of SCs/STs during its tenure.
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