Digital Goa, Oct 10 – Union Minister of State for Social Justice Ramdas Athawale who met CM Pramod Sawant today said he has demanded that the reservations for the SC and ST communities be increased from the current 2 per cent to 5 per. “The state government should grant ownership to SC and ST people whose properties are included as part of assets of temple committees in Goa. People from these communities should be provided land for cultivation in the state,” he further added. He also pushed for caste-based census in Goa. He said he has urged the chief minister to make a separate provision for a finance development corporation for the SC/ST community “A separate SC welfare department should be formed in the state with a special budget provision for it,”he went on to add.
