330, 332, 243D); and extension of the 73rd and 74th Amendments of the Constitution to the Scheduled Areas through the provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996, to ensure effective participation of the tribals in the process of planning and decision making. [...] The TDBs ignored the protective aspects of the tribal’s requirements.5 The Third Five-Year Plan of the Government of India (1961-66) was directed towards strengthening the agricultural economy and proposed priority to the programs for the economic upliftment of the persons engaged in the shifting cultivation. [...] Ever since the beginning of the ITDP during the Fifth Five-Year Plan, the Government of Andhra Pradesh adopted four criteria on the basis of the recommendations made by the Government of India for implementation of the program. [...] In respect of the Scheduled Tribes, the concept of Tribal Sub-Plan launched in the Fifth Plan is to ensure integrated development of the various Scheduled Tribe communities in the country with the aid of pooled financial resources of the Centre and the States, keeping in view their different economic and socio-cultural background. [...] In view of the above inadequacies and drawbacks in the formulation and implementation of the TSP, the committee appointed by the Government of Maharashtra, recommended in 1992 that the Tribal Development Department should be invested with all the functional powers of the planning department of the State Government so far as the work of preparation of Annual Plan in TSP areas as well as for tribals.
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