<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:200%;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">TheNational Commission for Scheduled Castes has expressed concern overnon-spending of SC special plan funds and rising incidents of murder and rapein Telangana state. The Commission held a detailed review of the implementationof central and state programmes and development activities in the state withtop officials in Hyderabad today.&nbsp; </span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:200%;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:200%;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:200%;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Thefull commission, headed by Chairman Prof. Ram Shankar Katheria held the reviewmeeting which was attended by Vice Chairman L.Murugan, members K.Ramulu,Dr.Yogendra Paswan, and Dr.Swaraj Vidwan. Later, addressing a press conference,Prof Katheria said, the state has not taken spending of special plan seriously.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><br />''</p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:200%;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">ProfKatheria also observed that only 4000 crore rupees against 14,300 crore rupeesallocation have been spent so far during the current year. He said, the numberof murder and rape cases during the past 3 years, has gone up considerably andcompensation is not being paid in time. He further said, the conviction rateunder the SC and ST prevention of atrocities Act is considerably lower than thenational rate.</span></p>