SURVEY ON TRIBAL POPULATION

A detailed survey of the Scheduled Tribes in the district will be conducted as part of preparing an integrated development project for tribal areas.
An official press release here on Monday said that the survey was being held State-wide to collect data containing even minute details about the tribal population. Despite huge allocations in Ninth and Tenth Five Year Plans for development of tribal areas, basic problems being faced by the tribal people could not be solved, the release said adding that the absence of a comprehensive data was thought to be a factor that affected effective utilisation of the funds.
The release said that the survey was planned to find out the real condition of the tribal habitats and resources in those areas. Details about Adivasi families and settlements would be collected in the survey. A district-level committee headed by District Collector Ishita Roy would supervise the survey, which would cover 35 panchayats and three municipalities in the district. Hundred survey teams would complete the survey in 10 days, it said adding that each team would collect information from 100 tribal families.
A district co-ordinator had been appointed for launching the survey. A 20-member survey committee would be formed in each of the panchayats to be covered by the survey.
There would be facilitators, observers and enumerators to do the survey work, the release said. A meeting of representatives of the panchayats and muncipalities concerned would be held at the Science Park June 5.