<P> Comprehensive tools have been developed to monitor the implementation of the Act for each case, and at the district and state levels . </P> <P> Many civil society organisations (CSOs) started using this Act to provide some relief to the victims almost immediately . A few Dalit and human rights organizations took to monitoring violence against the SC&ST communities, documenting them, publicizing them and also monitoring the use of the Act in dealing with these crimes . One of the first to monitor the implementation of this Act was Sakshi in Andhra Pradesh . However, that was restricted to monitoring up to the judicial process--up to the filing of the First Information Report (FIR) in the police station . Special attention was given to ensure that the filing of the First Information Report (FIR) included sections of the POA . </P> <P> The full monitoring of the Act by CSOs is a later phenomenon and has not matured in that civil society reports on implementation of the Act (shadow reports to the ones mandated by the Act section 21 (4)) are yet to be done . </P> <P> Annual reports by Citizen's monitoring committees have been done in Karnataka for 2009 (English), 2010 (English and Kannada) and a combined report for 2011 and 2012 (in English and Kannada (with monitoring tools)) auditing the performance of the State, including the bureaucracy, judicial system, police and monitoring mechanisms (DVMCs and SVMC). However, atrocities in the state still continue to rise, and convictions remain low . </P>

Amendments under the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes (prevention of atrocities) act 1989