Explanation:

The Rajasthan government plans to introduce a bill in the Budget Session of the assembly to allocate funds for the welfare of Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) proportional to their populations.

The government intends to implement these provisions from the next financial year.

The Rajasthan State Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribes Development Fund (Planning, Allocation, and Utilisation of Financial Resources) Bill has been finalised after the Chief minister had promised such a legislation in his 2021-22 Budget speech.

The draft bill, says that the state will allocate developmental funds for these communities and issue separate orders for the allocation on year to year basis as per their share in the population.

It must be noted here that the provision for separate fund allocation proportional to the SC and ST populations is already there.

But it is not in the legal framework. The erstwhile Planning Commission introduced it during the fifth and sixth five-year plans.

The state governments followed these directives but it is difficult to figure out how much allocation has been made and spent by the departments. This proposed law will give a legal framework to this allocation.