Ministry of Finance

Posted On: 01 FEB 2019 1:12PM by PIB Delhi

A Committee under NITI Aayog will be set-up to complete the task of identifying De-notified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic communities not yet formally classified. While presenting the Interim Budget 2019-20 in Parliament today, the Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs, Railways and Coal, Shri Piyush Goyal said that the Government will also set-up a Welfare Development Board under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment specifically for the purpose of implementing welfare and development programmes for De-notified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic communities. The Board shall ensure that special strategies are designed and implemented to serve these hard to-reach communities.

Shri Goyal said that the Government is committed to reach the most deprived citizens of this country. To this end, the condition of the De-notified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic communities merits special attention. These communities are hard to reach, less visible, and therefore, frequently left-out. The Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic communities move from place to place in search of a livelihood. The Renke Commission and the Idate Commission have done commendable work to identify and list these communities.

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Identification of de notified and nomadic communities to be completed, paired with a Welfare Development Board for targeted outreach. A committee under NITI Aayog will complete identification of De-notified, Nomadic and Semi Nomadic communities not yet formally classified, and a Welfare Development Board in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment will implement targeted welfare programmes with specially designed outreach strategies for hard-to-reach, mobile, and less visible populations, building on prior commission work.