SC/ST commission receives maximum complaints from Thiruvananthapuram district, says panel chief
The Kerala State Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes reported that Thiruvananthapuram district accounts for the highest volume of complaints in the state. The commission has successfully reduced its total pending case backlog from 10,000 to 500 over the past two years through active administrative intervention.
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The Kerala State Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes receives the maximum number of complaints from Thiruvananthapuram district, commission chairperson Sekharan Miniyodan has said.
Addressing mediapersons after the Thiruvananthapuram adalat of the commission, its 45th, here on Thursday, Mr. Miniyodan said 2,500 of the 10,000 complaints received by the commission from January 9, 2024, when its term began to March 31, 2026, were from Thiruvananthapuram. This number was very high. This was owing to the district’s peculiarities such as easy access for filing complaints and high population. Complaints were received even from the floating population, he said.
The commission, Mr. Miniyodan said, had been successful in “revamping” the administration by creating awareness among them of the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and addressing their indifference and mistakes.
As a result, the number of complaints in hand had come down to 500 from 10,000 two years ago.
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