Adilabad: Nearly 2,500 children belonging to 26 BC nomadic and semi- nomadic castes were admitted to government schools for the first time this year thanks to the BC Corporation.
There are thousands of children of these nomadic BC communities out of school in the state. The nomadic and semi- nomadic included in the BC A group are Balasanthula, Budubukkala, Dommara, Pamula, Gangireddula, Mondivaru, Banda, Veeramusti, Mandula and Pambadala.
BC Empowerment Council of Telangana, coordinator Durgam Subbarao said, “It is good to focus on NDTs child education in Telangana. A special component plan for the NDTs and government must allocate 10 per cent of annual plan budget for them.”
Speaking to this newspaper BC welfare minister Jogu Ramanna said they have conducted a survey and have identified 26 castes as nomadic in nature among the existing BC communities and focusing on the development and welfare of these communities in the BCs in the state.
He said they have admitted nearly 2,500 children of nomadic BC communities to the government schools this year and they were admitted for the first time into educational institutions.
As per the GO 15 there are total 144 castes in Backward Community’s list. Among them, 26 have been identified as most backward communities in the BCs in the Telangana state.
Efforts are being made to bring these BC communities in nomadic nature into the mainstream. It is found in the survey that these communities move from one place to another in search of food, begging and no permanent shelter is available for them due to their nomadic nature.
