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Paswan demands revision of budget allocation for SC/ST Advertisement STAFF REPORTER 18:21 HRS IST New Delhi, July 11 (PTI) Claiming that the allocation for SC/ST has come down in the Union Budget, LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan today demanded that UPA government revise it and made a strong pitch for reservation in private sector. "In the union budget for 2009-2010, the budget allocation for SC/ST has gone down even from the last year's budget. The government should revise it," Paswan said giving figures of money sanctioned for different schemes for the SC/ST in the budget. The LJP chief, who also heads National Dalit Front, went a step further and demanded that "money should infact be allocated to SCs and ST as per the Special Component Plan (SCP) in accordance with their population ratio as envisaged by former late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
