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Expenditures to be included in the Earmarked Funds. While earmarking the funds for the development of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes under section 10, the following expenditures may be included therein, namely:— (a) in respect of the Special Schemes exclusively benefitting the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, hundred per cent of the expenditure allocated for such schemes; (b) in respect of General Schemes, a portion of the expenditure allocated to such schemes in proportion to the population of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the State or to the number of beneficiaries of such schemes belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, as the case may be, whichever is higher; and (c) in respect of the schemes involving non-divisible infrastructure works, a portion of the scheme cost as it may deem fit.