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Tribal health and nutrition used to be a major issue in Attappady leading to death of tribal infants in considerable numbers in the past. In order to mitigate this issue, several concerted efforts have been taken by the Government. Government Tribal Specialty Hospital at kottathara in Attappady has been developed as a nodal agency for screening women, adolescents and children for health related issues and addressing the same. Three Nutritional Rehabilitation Centres (NRCs) are being operated under this hospital for...
Recognising the fact that only education could lead the tribes to a bright future, Scheduled Tribes Development Department has been investing heavily on tribal educated institutions in Attappady. There is one Model Residential School(MRS) and 16 Pre-Matric hostels established in Attappady by Scheduled Tribes Development Department. This network of institutions caters to 1440 tribal children, Utmost care is taken to ensure good quality of education and the living standards are being constantly improved. Apart from this, a new Post-Matric hostel...
SCHEMES & ACTIVITIES FOREST RIGHTS ACT 1. Individual Rights issued to 282 families over 320.349 Hect. 2. Community Rights to 43 applicants are in the process of issuing titles. In the second phase, 2167 applications have been received for individual rights. Joint verification has been completed in 640 cases. Action is being taken for conducting survey in those cases. Joint verification has to be conducted for the rest of the applications. No applications have been received for community rights so far. LAND Details of Land distributed...
The Project “Millet Village” is intended for rejuvenating the traditional tribal agriculture in selected hamlets in Attapady. It will be implemented jointly by Agriculture Department and Scheduled Tribes Development Department. Administrative sanction has been issued for Rs. 6.87 crore, out of which, Rs.4.87 crore is the share of ST Department and Rs. 2.00 crore is the share of Agricultural Department. The scheme is progressing. Attapady is having 745 sq. km of geographical area with almost 15000 Ha of cultivation spread in...
The scheme is intended for providing food grains in needy tribal areas of all the Districts in the State and to address the issue of malnutrition and poverty among the STs. Choice of food items will be decided according to area specific tastes and preferences of the tribes and this will be decided at P O / TDO level. Special priority should be given to women headed families and unwed mothers. During 2016-17, 11000 families were food grains expending an...
Special Activities Monitored By Nodal Officer, Tribal Health, Attappady Follow up of SAM and SUW children through special task force by monitoring bi-weekly. Special attention is given for monitoring in take of EDSF, regarding feeding from AW, home available feed, care by parents, frequent de-worming, regular follow up in NRC etc. Follow up of MAM children by field workers monthly to ensure feeding from AW and home. Monitoring of pregnant women; those with recent EDC are brought to GTSH Kottathara two weeks prior...
Financial assistance is given to 116 Sickle Cell Anaemia patients. An amount of Rs. 44.54 lakhs has been allotted for this purpose during 2017-18 as of now. Under Janani Janmaraksha Project, financial assistance of Rs. 1000/- per month is given to pregnant ladies and new born infants. An amount of Rs. 93.34 lakhs has been allotted to 1027 beneficiaries during this financial year as of now. For the functioning of Community Kitchen an amount of Rs. 7.50 crores has been given to...
Literacy rate of tribes are very poor and it makes drop out in the schools of tribal areas. To solve this problem and to create ambience for education in hamlets, department has proposed to start the Community Study Centre in the state during 2016-17. One educated tribal youth from same society will be selected and who will work as a facilitator and social worker. The Centre will function in the already existing community hall or similar structure in the hamlet. ...
To ensure proper education to tribal children, one educated tribal youth (men or women) preferably with TTC/B.Ed qualification from the same locality with knowledge in tribal dialect and Malayalam is selected and trained to function as teacher/education facilitator in all Primary Schools according to the strength of tribal students. Along with teaching, these teachers are entrusted to addressing the language issues of tribal children, reducing drop outs and ensuring cent per cent enrolment, intensive coaching of tribal students, acting as...