Nepal,Bhutan & Delhi Section

Responsible for overseeing construction projects, welfare programs, and local administration in Nepal, Bhutan, Delhi, Youth Support Section, and Housing Section. To follow guidelines as per the meeting minutes (29/3/2023) chaired by the Honorable Minister of Home Affairs and Sikyong.

Project Follow-up:

The accounting section should categorize the nature of projects and allocate funds for each region.

Each regional division should consult with the related Settlement Officers to establish implementation processes and timelines for each project.

Assign a name and identification number to each project:

Construction projects must be implemented in accordance with the financial regulations and guidelines of the Home Department of Central Tibetan Administration.

Project contractors should be out sourced locally at the regional level. For medium to large projects, each Settlement Officers should take responsibility and appoint a supervisory committee comprised of project stakeholders.

For construction projects, maps, images and progress reports of the construction sites should be regularly submitted to Home Department by concerned Settlement Offices. Simultaneously, these reports should be publicly announced online, allowing all concerned parties to track progress.

The Settlement Officers should monitor whether the projects are progressing according to the schedule. Any new challenges encountered should be promptly reported to higher authorities at the Head Office.

Identification and Approval of New Projects:

If a new project not included in the next three fiscal years’ plans is deemed necessary, each Settlement Officers should conduct a thorough analysis and planning, then report to the respective dealing officer in the Department of Home.

Each Settlement officer should examine the new projects submitted from local areas to determine if they are genuinely needed and feasible to implement. They should then report to the Administrative Committee of Home Department with detailed plans, including budgets, timeline, and expected outcomes.

New projects approved by the Administrative Committee of Home Department should be promptly recommended to the Finance Department.

The Finance Department should distribute information about new projects from various departments to sponsors or donors to seek funding support.

Settlement officers should report projects that have secured local funding to the Administrative Committee of Home Department. The Home Department should then inform the Finance Department about the financial status of such projects. (No need to seek approval for administrative and project plans)

Destitute/Needy Individuals:

Based on the list from the Central Destitute enquiry Committee of the three departments (Home, Education, and Health), each Settlement Officers should report to the relevant Departments about any individuals who have overcome poverty or new cases of destitute or needy individuals in their area.

The responsible committee member of destitute enquiry committee from the three departments should convene every four months to review the database on additions and removals for restitutes from the list.

The Department of Home should be responsible for maintaining, updating, and convening meetings regarding the general database of destitute or needy individuals. They should also provide access of these information to the concerned Education and Health departments, as well as the Social Resource Development Fund.

Subsistence Allowance and Scholarships:

Each Settlement Officers must submit receipts for distributed subsistence allowances and primary school scholarships to the Department of Home in a timely manner.

Information about individuals who have overcome poverty or students who have dropped out must be immediately reported to the dealing officer of the Department of Home.

Greeting cards, letters, and photos from the elderly and students to their respective sponsors must be submitted to the Department of Home on time.

(The Cabinet will discuss the inclusion of daycare centers, their vehicles, aid organizations and sponsors, and scholarships for about 800 children to administer under the Department of Education)

Elderly Care Homes/Old People’s Home:

Through the concerned Settlement Officers, the Department of Home will be responsible for all activities related to elderly care homes in each region, including regular expenses, building maintenance, new construction, medical care and health, caretaking, and coordination with aid organizations

Quarterly Reports:

To scrutinize whether the Settlement Officers have submitted their quarterly work reports for their respective areas on time. The additional secretaries should review and compile the work reports from their respective divisional jurisdictions and the Administrative section will finalize the consolidated work report and appraise the same to the Kashag.

Welfare Section

Background:

This section had only one staff earlier in 1976 to look after the social and economic welfare of Tibetan people in exile. Due to the subsequent growth in the number of destitute Tibetan person in exile and immediately after the advocacy of H.H. The Dalai Lama on the said matter in 1994, a committee was formed by the Kashag secretariat to survey all Tibetan settlements in India, Nepal and Bhutan to thoroughly scrutinize the living condition of Tibetan families. The committee comprised of members from three main Departments i.e. Department of Home, Department of Education and Department of Health. Consequently the in the year 1997, this section have been separately founded with 02 staff to look after the destitute elders. Thus over the period of time, 14 elder care homes have been founded which are looked after by this section and different programs have been carried out. At present there are 07 staff employed in this section.

With a view to achieving a holistic development, the committee formed with representatives from three main departments dealing with the welfare, health and education of the people, i.e Department of Home, Department of Education and Department of Health.

The CTRC/Department of Home, CTA has since been implementing poverty alleviation initiatives in Tibetan settlements across India, Nepal and Bhutan.

Poverty Alleviation Initiative: 

For the social and economic welfare of Tibetan people in exile, 02 staff are employed to field survey all the Tibetan settlements in India, Nepal and Bhutan. The compiled report of destitute families found during the survey will be submitted to Central Poverty Steering and Alleviation Committee (CPSAC). After thoroughly examining the report, this committee further puts up this report to Kashag for approval. The destitute families approved by CPSAC will be categorized in three categories as under:

1. 1. Old age (65+ years of age) destitute with ill health who are cared under the Department of Home initiatives.
   2. Families with large number of children who are cared under the Department of Education initiatives.
   3. Youth disabled by diseases who are cared under the Department of Health initiatives.

Adopt a granny and granddad program: 

This is an outreach program where we help our granny and granddad to find a sponsor who supports them by giving monthly stipend. This program has been very successful in reaching out to several thousands of destitute elders or ones whose family are not capable of taking care of their elder folks on account of dire circumstances.a total of 1381 elderlies are covered in adopt a granny and granddad program and poverty alleviation scheme.

Poverty Alleviation Scheme:

 The destitute elderlies who are not covered under the adopt a granny and granddad program are given interim relief from this project. Emergency relief has been provided to the families who suffer from unnatural calamities. Presently under the Poverty Alleviation Program, we have nearly 450 destitution elders, 268 youth disabled diseases and 295 families with large number if children. Apart from the above figure, there are 106 ex-army stipend for leaders has been increased rs 1000/- for the elders who have family and 1500/- to 7000/- to those who are single without family according to their age. The details of stipend are

Elder Care Homes: 

the central Tibetan administration (CTA) with the sympathetic help an support of sponsors has raised care homes for elders popularly known as Old People’s Home (OPH) in India and Nepal. one of the primary responsibilities of central Tibetan relief committee CTRC, Department of Home, is to take care of genuinely poor and destitute elders who haven o one to take care of them. In carrying out this responsibility, at present we have over 14 old people’s home built in various Tibetan settlements in India and one in Nepal. Presently we are accommodating nearly 545 elders. It’s our top priority to create a homely environment and a place as much comfortable as a real home for our elders. Residents are provided with one room shared by two inmates with daily nutritional food, clothing and medical facilities.