Thiruvananthapuram: On the occasion of "World Indigenous Day" today, Kerala government has set up a cabinet panel to look into the woes of unwed tribal mothers in the state, a minister said.
In view of recent media reports about the plight of unwed tribal mothers, some of them teenagers, the government has set up a cabinet panel comprising Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, Tourism Minister AP Anil Kumar and Minister for Scheduled Tribes and Youth Affairs, PK Jayalekshmi.
Various actions taken for the rehabilitation of unwed mothers would be evaluated by the committee and a report on the issue would be submitted this month itself, Jayalekshmi said on the occasion of "World indigenous Day" today.
"A collective effort at various levels of administration is essential to achieve the goals set by United Nations which declared 2005-15 as 'decade of indigenous'," the minister said in a release here.
Jayalekshmi, the lone minister belonging to a tribal community from Wayanad, appealed the media to give due prominence to the problems of the adivasi population.
Seeking to make tribals self-sufficient, the government has also begun preliminary works for construction of model tribal colonies which comprises houses, dairy farms, vegetable plantations, biogas plants and common facility centre.
In view of recent media reports about the plight of unwed tribal mothers, some of them teenagers, the government has set up a cabinet panel comprising Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, Tourism Minister AP Anil Kumar and Minister for Scheduled Tribes and Youth Affairs, PK Jayalekshmi.
Various actions taken for the rehabilitation of unwed mothers would be evaluated by the committee and a report on the issue would be submitted this month itself, Jayalekshmi said on the occasion of "World indigenous Day" today.
"A collective effort at various levels of administration is essential to achieve the goals set by United Nations which declared 2005-15 as 'decade of indigenous'," the minister said in a release here.
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Jayalekshmi, the lone minister belonging to a tribal community from Wayanad, appealed the media to give due prominence to the problems of the adivasi population.
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Seeking to make tribals self-sufficient, the government has also begun preliminary works for construction of model tribal colonies which comprises houses, dairy farms, vegetable plantations, biogas plants and common facility centre.
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