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Conclusion
In a total of 342 poor welfare fairs held in two blocks, an

aid amounting to a total of ` 4,859.05 has been distributed to a
total of 37,69,477 beneficiaries; including 4,73,570 people
belonging to Scheduled Castes with an aid of ` 426.41 crore;
10,13,707 people belonging to Scheduled Tribes with an aid of
` 1,219.96 crore; and educationally and socially backward
10,62,001 beneficiaries getting an aid of ` 1,075.83 crore; while
12,20,242 beneficiaries belonging to other categories have got
a total of ` 2,137.03 crore aid.

Outcome
Until this time, the poor welfare fairs have been organised

in Gujarat in two blocks. In the first block (from 23 December
2009 to 22 February 2010), a total of fifty welfare fairs were
organized, two each in 22 districts of the state, and one each
in the districts of Narmada, Dang, Dahod and Porbandar, and
two were held in Ahmedabad city.

In the first block, the total number of beneficiaries was
21,12,273 getting an aid of ` 2,741.71 crore. Of these, the people
belonging to the Scheduled Castes got an aid of ` 326.29 crore,
6,10,149 people of Scheduled Tribes got an aid of ` 766.28 crore;
and 5,04,895 beneficiaries belonging to socially and
educationally backward class got an aid of ‘ 525.75 crore; and
6,76,978 beneficiaries belonging to other categories got an aid
of ` 1,123 crore.

After this, between July and August in 2010, 17 fairs were
organised in 224 rural tehsils and 18 municipalities of A grade,
33 municipalities of B grade and seven municipal corporations.
Thus, a total of 292 poor welfare fairs were successfully
organised.

In the second block, an aid of ` 2,117.53 crore was
disbursed to 16,50,247 beneficiaries; comprising 1,53,279
beneficiaries belonging to the Scheduled Castes getting an aid
of ` 9,982 crore; 4,03,558 beneficiaries belonging to the
Scheduled Tribes getting an aid of ` 453.68 crore; and 5,57,146