I can say that very few people take the trouble of going to places which are not easily accessible and therefore the advantage and comfort that they should derive from those employed to look after them is not what it should be. My submission is that this problem really does require particular attention and the firs thing on which I whole-heartedly concur with the Commission's Report is that there should be separate Commissioner for Scheduled Tribes. As I have said before, the problems of the scheduled castes and those of the tribes are different. The scheduled castes are backward. They have been suffering from a number of disadvantage but they are very much similar to the backward people of our own country. But these Scheduled Tribes are very much different. They have their own customs, ways and manners and they have their own laws. The greatest difficulty is the dialect. In an area of about 100 kilometers, 10 different dialects are spoken and one cannot carry on conversation with the other. So, a separate Commissioner is absolutely essential. Again, a separate department for tribal welfare is also necessary in all the States where a large number of the Scheduled Tribes people stay. In addition, there should be periodical checking of the work done. What happenes is, money is not spent. It is left over and the places are not visited. Periodical checking of these things is necessary because the implementation of schemes is very essential. There should be a scheme by which the people of t he Scheduled Tribes should mix with others. We should not make a pocket of the Scheduled Tribes. They feel absolutely cut off. They are confined at one place and they hardly meet the people of the plains. I am talking of the people of the hill areas. Even the Government officials are not very helpful to them because they live far-off. Therefore, I had made a suggestion previously that in pockets where there are enough Scheduled Tribes. There should be an office of the Government. Some sort of office should be there and it should look after the comforts of these people.
