With a view to provide safeguards against the exploitation of SCs & STs and to promote and protect their social, educational, economic and cultural interests, special provisions were made in the Constitution. Consequent upon the Constitution (Eighty-Ninth Amendment) Act , 2003 (Annexure II of the handbook) coming into force on 19-2-2004 vide Notification of that date (Annexure III of the handbook) the erstwhile National Commission for Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes has been replaced by (1) National Commission for Scheduled Castes, and (2) National Commission for Scheduled Tribes.
Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/organisation/national-commission-schedule-castes
[2] http://ncsc.nic.in/
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/people
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/scheduled-castes
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/delhi