PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR VULNERABLE GROUPS UNDER RCH II: in india for referance of medical and r.ch lovers
December 2004
Government of India Department of Family Welfare Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Area Project/VOLUNERABLE COMMUNITIES MODIFIED/DS(AP)
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This document covers:
(i) PIP for Vulnerable Groups (in general) (ii) PIP for Tribal Health (iii) PIP for Urban Slum Health
PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES INCLUDING SC/ST
Area Project/VOLUNERABLE COMMUNITIES MODIFIED/DS(AP)
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BACKGROUND
Vulnerable communities include those groups who are underserved due to problems of geographical access, (even in better off States) and those who suffer social and economic disadvantages such as Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (SCs/STs) and the urban poor. Scheduled Caste people (166.6 million) and Scheduled Tribe people (84.3 million) in India are considered to be socially and economically the most disadvantaged group. Scheduled Castes constitute 16.2% and Scheduled Tribe 8.2% of the country’s population (as per the 2001 Census). Their percentages in the population and numbers however vary from State to State. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes do not live only in homogeneous communities, but are found within heterogeneous communities both in rural and urban areas. There are six predominantly tribal States/UTs (Arunchal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Dadar and Nagar Haveli and Lakshdweep) where more than 60% of the population is tribal and another 9 States (Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Orissa and West Bengal) where majority of tribal people live. Scheduled Caste population is spread over in all the States and UTs. However, in the States of Arunchal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Goa, the SC population is less than 3%. The RCH indicators for slum population are worse than the urban average. Marginalization results in poorer social indicators for these...