- Special police team (set up by Kerala Home Department) has detected irregularities in expenditure of funds under Tribal Special Plan
- More than 100 homeless tribal in Pudur grama Panchayat have not been benefitted from the housing project
- Certain documents which will help for a vigilance probe, were missing from Panchayat office
- 1.62 acres was purchased by the Panchayat for the project paying Rs.30,000 for each five-cent plot
- Around 5 cents has been allotted to 29 beneficiaries under a housing scheme in 2011 at Padavayal village
- The documents in Panchayat shows the land is owned by a relative of a local contractor and a panchayat member, but during inspection it was shown as alienated with no awareness about the scheme by any beneficiary
- Panchayat had purchased 3.21 acres paying Rs.21, 07,500 to construct houses for 79 homeless tribal people
- Evidence was found against a contractor who built 107 houses for tribal people in the Anaikatty- Gottiyankandi belt
- Tribal people in Attappady have no dearth of schemes, but agencies that monitor should have power for periodic audit and asset verification
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/attappady-tribes-home-dream-vanishes-into-thin-air/article6168431.ece
Exams Perspective:
- TSP (Tribal Sub Plan)
- Plight of Tribals
- Education among Tribals
- Land Alienation
- Tribal Poverty