December 16, 2025
Pratima Mondal’s Supplementary Question on why the socio-economic survey on Denotfied Tribes (DNT) has been starved of funds and no survey has been held for the last eight years

Madam, the Idate Commission Report on DNTs in 2017 recorded that it could not complete a nation-wide socio-economic survey because the Ministry repeatedly denied it the required funds. Despite these communities being described as most backward, why did the Government starve its Commission of resources and why even eight years after the Report no dedicated nationwide survey has been undertaken for these communities?