nagpur the nagpur bench of bombay high court while hearing the old petition of malnutrition deaths of kolam tribals on saturday has decided to hear the case on a daytoday basis the public interest litigation filed by president of vidarbha jan andolan samiti kishor tiwari informing several starvation deaths in tribaldominated villages of kelapur ghatanji maregaon ralegaon kalam and arni in yavatmal the counsel for the petitioner firdos mirza has submitted a document informing the court that the government has not prepared a list of people living below poverty line bpl in the affected area since 9798 and they were not included in public distribution system pds as well the counsel for the petitioner citing example of supreme court directions on primitive tribes said that the apex court had asked to accommodate all of them in antodaya scheme therefore the kolam tribals should be included in the scheme but government has done nothing in this regard the division bench comprising justices ambadas joshi and rc chavan then asked the state government to name the officer who will be responsible for implementing the pds by monday as per the petition yavatmal is most affected district due to nonimplementation of various schemes for the benefit of poor tribal families residing in the 710 tribal villages of nine talukas of yavatmal district for protection of fundamental rights of food shelter education health and drinking water to be made available to the tribals the pil was filed way back in may 2003 when the 52 kolam tribals died of starvation in yavatmal the highcourt division bench had appointed various committees from time to time during the period of last three and half years and finally had directed the state government to submit action taken report the petitioner alleged that all tribal families are deprived of basic means due to the apathy of the state government in implementation the various welfare schemes even after the report from the high power committee appointed by the highcourt advocate bharati dangre represented the state