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Kolkata: Trinamool Congress (TMC) chairperson, Mamata Banerjee, will address the convention of scheduled castes and tribes at Gitanjali Stadium in Kasba here on Thursday. The programme has been organised by the Trinamool Congress Schedule Castes Cell and Trinamool Congress Schedule Tribes Cell. The Mamata Banerjee government has ensured a massive development for the SC and ST community in the past 10 years. Compared to the previous government's budget, the yearly allocations for SC and ST welfare schemes have increased more than double. Again, the Mamata Banerjee government has ensured distribution of 18.26 lakh ST, SC and Other Backward Class (OBC) certificates in barely two months through Duare Sarkar camps in the state..