Activity and function of the Department

The Backward Classes Welfare Department works for social, economic and cultural development of the people belonging to SC, ST, OBC community of the district.

The main functions of this department are:

Implementation of various educational schemes for SC, ST and OBC students.
Issuance of caste certificates and ensure observance of reservation norms in services, posts and admission in educational institutions of North 24 Parganas.
Social and cultural development of SC, ST and OBC people.
Acts upon various rights and safeguards of SC/ST people of the district.
Community Development schemes are undertaken in ITDP areas, service deficient areas and non-Scheduled areas for creation and upgradation of critical infrastructure that are required to improve the economy in tribal and backward areas under Article 275 (1) of the constitution.
Implementation of (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 to remove humiliation and harassment meted to SC & ST people. Relief and rehabilitation are provided to the atrocity victims as per rule.

Citizen Services offered by the Department:

Sl. No	Details of service provided	Contact	Contact Number
1	Issuance of Caste Identification certificate for SC, ST and OBC people in terms of the WB SC & ST (Identification) Act, 1994.	SDO, Barasat	033-2552-3311
		SDO, Basirhat	03217-65297
		SDO, Bongaon	03215-255001
		SDO, Bidhannagar	033-2359-6097
		SDO, Barrackpore	033-2592-0814

Schemes running by the Department

Min & Max Age Group	Min. Qualification	Annual Income ceiling in Rs.	Scheme Details	Training Info	Gender	Category(SC/ST/OBC/Minority	Contact person details	Form details	How to apply
-	Class V - VIII	2,50,000/-	Shikshashree	-	All	SC & ST	Insp,BCW/Addl. Insp, BCW of concerned SDO/Block.	Online application	Hardcopy of application alongwith documents to be submitted to SDO/ block through school.
-	Class IX-X	2,50,000/-	Pre-Matric Scholarship for SC/ST	-	All	SC & ST	Insp,BCW/Addl. Insp, BCW of concerned SDO/ Block.	Online application Website: www.oasis.gov.in	Hardcopy of application alongwith documents to be submitted to SDO/block.
-	Gr.I: Medical/Engg./M.Phil/Ph.D etc. Gr.II: Post-Graduate/B.Pharm/B.Nursing/L.L.B. etc. Gr. III: Graduation Gr.IV: XI/XII/I.T.I.	2,50,000/- for SC & ST 1,00,000/- for OBC	Post-Matric Scholarship for SC/ST/OBC	-	All	SC, ST & OBC	Insp,BCW/Addl. Insp, BCW of concerned Block/Municipality	Online application Website: www.oasis.gov.in	Hardcopy of application alongwith documents to be submitted to SDO/block/municipality.
-	Class V-X	36,000/-	Hostel grant for students lodging in school attached hostel	-	All	SC & ST	Insp,BCW/Addl. Insp, BCW of concerned Block/Municipality	Offline application for Class V-VIII Online application for Class IX-X Website: www.oasis.gov.in	Application to be submitted to the office of the P.O.-CUM-D.W.O., BCW, North 24 Parganas through school for V-VIII. For IX-X, hardcopy of application to be submitted to concerned block.
-	Class I-X	36,000/-	Ashram Hostel Grant	-		SC & ST	Office of the P.O.-CUM-D.W.O., BCW,North 24 Parganas	Offline application	Application to be submitted to the office of the P.O.-CUM-D.W.O., BCW, North 24 Parganas through school.
-	Class V-X	45,000/-	Pre-Matric Scholarship for OBC	-	All	OBC	Insp,BCW/Addl. Insp, BCW of concerned Block/Municipality	Offline application	Application to be submitted to block/municipality through school.
-	Class V-X	Rs. 60,920/-	Merit Scholarship (V-X) for SC/ST girls	-	Female	SC & ST	Office of the P.O.-CUM-D.W.O., BCW,North 24 Parganas	Offline application	Application to be submitted to the office of the P.O.-CUM-D.W.O., BCW, North 24 Parganas through school.
-	Class IX-XII	Rs. 36,000/-	Merit Scholarship for SC/ST	-	All	SC & ST	Office of the P.O.-CUM-D.W.O., BCW,North 24 Parganas	Offline application	Application to be submitted to the office of the P.O.-CUM-D.W.O., BCW, North 24 Parganas through school.
-	Class I-X	-	Scholarship to the students whose parents are engaged in uncleaned occupation	-	All	All	Office of the P.O.-CUM-D.W.O., BCW,North 24 Parganas	Online application Website: www.oasis.gov.in	Hardcopy of application alongwith documents to be submitted to the office of the concerned SDO/block/municipality.
Min. Age: 60 yrs.	-	Enlisted in SECC list & BPL list	ST Old Age Pension for rural people	-	All	ST	Insp,BCW/Addl. Insp, BCW of concerned Block	Offline application	Application alongwith documents to be submitted to block.
Min. Age:21 yrs. For Male 18 yrs. For female	-	-	Inter Caste Marriage Incentive Scheme	-	All	SC & ST	Insp,BCW/Addl. Insp, BCW of concerned Block	Online application Website: www.anagrasarkalyan.gov.in	Hardcopy of application alongwith documents to be submitted to office of the P.O.-CUM-D.W.O., BCW, North 24 Parganas.
-	-	Not more than Rs. 8,00,000.00	Issuance of caste certificate	-	All	SC, ST & OBC	Insp,BCW/Addl. Insp, BCW of concerned Block/Municipality	Online application Website: www.oscar.gov.in	Hardcopy of application alongwith documents to be submitted to the office of the concerned SDO/block/municipality.

Updated report on educational schemes for the year 2017-18 as on 09.01.18.

Sl.No	Name of the Scheme	Target	Achievement
01	PMS to SC	84376	46482
02	PMS to ST	5247	3464
03	Post-Matric OBC	30011	1838
04	Sikhashree to SC	86871	86460
05	Sikhashree to ST	9852	9565
06	Merit Scholarship V to X SC	198	194
07	Merit Scholarship V to X ST	36	30
08	Merit Scholarship IX to XII SC	76	66
09	Merit Scholarship Ix to XII ST	15	13
10	Pre-Matric OBC	26457	10708
11	CS Pre-Matric IX to X (SC)	23337	7509
12	CS Pre-Matric IX to X (ST)	1348	Nil
	Total	267824	166329

Status Report on holding of Special Camp for issuance of Caste Certificates in 2017-18

Sl. No.	Venue of Camp	Date of Camp	Number of Camp held	Number of Application received at the camp	Number of Certificate issued at the camp
1	North Dumdum Municipality Kamarhati & New Barrackpore Municipality	5th April,17 26th April,17	2	0	14
2	Sandeshkhali II	29th April, 2017	1	111	111
3	SDO, Barrackpore	22nd April, 2017	1	02	02
4	Bongaon Block	19th April, 2017	1	04	04
5	Minakhan P.S. Meeting Hall	18th April, 2017	1	19	7
6	Haroa P.S. Meeting Hall	17th April, 2017	1	30	27
7	Barasat II BDO Office	20th April, 2017 12th June, 2017	2	63	31
8	Amdanga Block Office	20th April, 2017 15th June, 2017	2	29	159
9	Hingalganj Block	21st April, 2017	1	22	28
10	Barackpore I Meeting Hall	3rd April, 2017	1	11	05
11	2nd Floor of Meeting hall of Hasnabad Panchayat Samity	21st April, 2017	1	12	45
12	Prithiba G.P., Kumra G.P., Prithiba G.P. Habra I G.P.	14th May, 2017 23rd May, 2017 26th May, 2017	3	127	Nil
13	Sandeshkhali II Block Office	29th April, 2017	1	191	191
14	Barasat I BDO Office	8th June, 2017	1	59	46
15	Habra II BDO Office	26th June, 2017	1	51	135
16	Uttarayan Hall, Deganga	30th June, 2017		37	56
17	Minakhan P.S. Meeting Hall	20th July, 2017	1	84	84
18	Basirhat II Block	3rd August,2017.	1	61	65
19	SDO, Barasat	24th October, 2017	1	62	61
20	SDO, Bongaon	31st October, 2017	1	192	182
21	Barrackpore II Block, Bilkanda II G.P.	3rd November, 2017	1	46	49
22	Barasat I Block	7th November, 2017	1	49	25
23	Amdanga Block	9th November, 2017	1	48	105
24	SDO, Basirhat	16th November, 2017	1	373	373
25	Habra II Block	17th November, 2017	1	69	30
26	Barrackpore I Block, Keutia G.P.	17th November, 2017	1	19	45
27	Habra I Block	22nd November, 2017	1	74	103
28	Swarupnagar Block	23rd November, 2017	1	111	111
29	Hasnabad Block	24th November, 2017	1	31	33
30	Hingalganj Block	27th November,2017	1	39	89
31	Minakhan Block	28th November, 2017	1	103	76
32	Sandeshkhali I Block	30th November, 2017	1	93	57
33	Basirhat II Block	6th December, 2017	1	35	35
34	Rajarhat Block	8th November, 2017	1	37	55
	Total		39	2294	2439

Report on Awareness workshop on various benefit provided to SC, ST and OBC people under various Govt. schemes

Sl.No	Name of Sub-Division/Block	No. of people SC,ST,OBC people attended
01	SDO, Barasat	69
02	SDO ,Barrackpore	17
03	SDO, Basirhat	190
04	SDO, Bidhannagar	78
05	SDO, Bongaon and Bongaon Block	57
O6	Minakhan	50
07	Haroa	20
08	BarasatII	308
09	Amdanga	119
10	Hingalganj	73
11	BarrackporeI	27
12	Hasnabad	57
13	Gaighata	105
14	Habra I	110
15	SandeshkhaliII	247
16	BarrackporeII	33
17	BarasatI	64
18	Habra II	120
19	Deganga	412
	TOTAL	2092

Annual Reports

Total Population of the District	Male	Female
10009781	51,19,389	48,90,392

Total SC Population of the District	Male	Female
21,69,084	11,15,458	10,53,626

Total ST Population of the District	Male	Female
2,64,597	1,34,179	1,30,418

Total No of ITDP Mouzas at of the District	At Haroa Block	At Minakan Block	At Sandeshkhali – I Block	At Sandeshkhali – I Block
24	9	2	11	2

Sl.No	Name of the Scheme	2016-17	2015-16		2016-17		Total no of beneficiaries paid Scholarship in thisyear(including LOC)	No ofstudents could not be paid scholarship In 2016-17
Sl.No	Name of the Scheme	Totalamount received	Amountutilized over left over cases	No.of beneficiaries as per col. (d)	Amountutilized for current cases	No.of beneficiaries as per col. (f)		No ofstudents could not be paid scholarship In 2016-17
a)	b)	c)	d)	e)	f)	g)	i)	j)
1	PMS(SC)	173150000	162540670	38118	10599000	2063	40181	56000
2	PMS(ST)	16200000	8826720	2054	7372090	1559	3613	1660
3	PMS(OBC)	214117300	5332980	1253	206092500	44390	45643	Nil
4	PREMATRICSCHOLARSHIP SCHEME(SC)	79210000	Nil	Nil	69284250	30793	30793	Nil
5	PREMATRICSCHOLARSHIP SCHEME(ST)	3227000	Nil	Nil	3226500	1437	1437	Nil

Event / Awareness

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Officials and Staffs

Sl.No.	Name	Designation	Contact
01	Sri. Kajal Kumar Roy, W.B.C.S.(Exe)	Project Officer-cum-District Welfare Officer	033-2552-4078
02	Sri. Subrata Narayan Sanyal	Backward Classes Welfare Officer
03	Sri. Ashis Adhikary	Jr. Engineer
04	Smt. Angana Roy	Inspector, BCW
05	Sri. Satyajit Das	Inspector, BCW
06	Smt. Reena Ghosh	U.D.C.
07	Smt. Sraboni Sikdar	U.D.C.
08	Sri. Mithun Mondal	U.D.C.
09	Sri. Sunirmal Saha	U.D.C.
10	Sri. Subhra Sekhar Ghosh	U.D.C.
11	Smt. Soma Sett	U.D.C.
12	Sri. Nemai Chand Halder	Social Worker, Gr. I
13	Sri. Birendranath Halder	Social Worker, Gr. I
14	Smt. Ratna Saha	Social Worker, Gr. I
15	Sri. Swapan Kumar Chakraborty	Sales Manager, Gr. I
16	Smt. Ankita Ghosh	L.D.C.
17	Sri. Sabyasachi Chakraborty	L.D.C.
18	Smt. Ratna Mukherjee	L.D.C.
19	Najmur Ahmed	L.D.C.
20	Sri. Joydeep Chatterjee	Night Guard
21	Sri. Debashish Chakraborty	Peon
22	Sri. Dinesh Hela	Peon

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Backward Class Welfare

Activity and function of the Department

Citizen Services offered by the Department:

Schemes running by the Department

Updated report on educational schemes for the year 2017-18 as on 09.01.18.

Status Report on holding of Special Camp for issuance of Caste Certificates in 2017-18

Report on Awareness workshop on various benefit provided to SC, ST and OBC people under various Govt. schemes

Annual Reports

Event / Awareness

Officials and Staffs