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Disadvantaged groups and the empowerment of SCs and STs sheet
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Explain the three-pronged strategy adopted by the Government of India for the empowerment of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

How to lay out the answer. Follow the frame, then write it in your own words.

  1. 1 · Open in one line. To end discrimination and exploitation, the government follows a three-pronged strategy for SCs and STs.
  2. 2 · Social empowerment through education. No fees, free books, mid-day meals and scholarships in elementary school, with special focus in Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas and Navodaya Vidyalayas.
  3. 3 · Support for higher education. Pre-matric and post-matric scholarships, national fellowships, coaching and hostels.
  4. 4 · Economic empowerment. NSFDC, NSKFDC and NSTFDC give loans, training and support for income-earning work.
  5. 5 · State bodies and TRIFED. SCDCs and STDCs finance job schemes; TRIFED helps STs market forest produce.
  6. 6 · Social justice. Protective laws: Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955, Prevention of Atrocities Act 1989 and Forest Rights Act 2006.
  7. 7 · Close in one line. Education, income and legal protection together help SCs and STs share in development.

Scoring tip: Name all three prongs in your opening line, then give at least two examples under each.