Speaker Om Birla suggests SC, ST Committees to make recommendations keeping in view changing requirements

NOTING that Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Welfare Committees of Parliament and state/union territories legislatures work above political lines, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday suggested that they make recommendations for framing policies and schemes keeping in view the changing requirements of the communities.

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Birla said this after inaugurating the two-day National Conference of Scheduled Castes and Tribes Welfare Committees of Parliament and State/UT Legislatures here. This is for the first time that such a national conference is being held outside Delhi.

Birla inaugurated the conference here in the presence of Odisha CM Mohan Charan Majhi, Union Tribal Affairs minister Jual Oram, Union Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh and Parliamentary Committee on Welfare of SC and ST Chairperson Faggan Singh Kulaste.

Odisha Assembly Speaker Surama Padhy and around 200 delegates from across the country, including chairmen and members of such committees of Parliament and 19 states, are attending the conference.