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Nation Janjatiya Gaurav Divas
SUCCESS STORY
SCHEMES LAUNCHED FOR TRIBALS
AND TRIBAL COMMUNITIES
n DEVELOPMENT ACTION PLAN FOR
House construction completed
SCHEDULED TRIBES: The Central Government
in a month
is implementing the 'Development Action Plan
for Scheduled Tribes' as a strategy for the 15 February 2024 is a memorable day
development of Scheduled Caste and Tribe- for Bhagchand Adivasi, a resident of
dominated areas. Apart from the Ministry of Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh, as
Tribal Affairs, 41 ministries and departments he became the owner of the first house
are allocating a certain percentage of their built under PM Janman launched by
budget for this. Under DAPST, 214 schemes and PM Modi. The construction of the house
programs are being run in 2024-25 for which was completed in a record time of one
an amount of more than Rs 1.23 lakh crore was month, with the first installment of Rs 50
allocated. thousand received through DBT on 15
n DHARTI AABA JANJATIYA GRAM January 2024. An amount of Rs 2.39 lakh
is provided for house construction.
UTKARSH ABHIYAN: Prime Minister Narendra
Modi launched the Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram
Utkarsh Abhiyan on October 2, 2024. It aims to
improve the living standards of more than 63
thousand villages spread across aspirational
and tribal-dominated districts with a budget
of Rs 79,156 crore. This will benefit more than 5 Tribal settlement of Mysore gets
crore tribal population. electricity connection after 75
years of independence
n PRADHAN MANTRI VANBANDHU KALYAN
SCHEME: The Pradhan Mantri Vanbandhu A tribal settlement on the outskirts of the
Kalyan Yojana was formally launched in the Hediyala range of Bandipur Tiger Reserve,
where electricity had not reached, this
country on 28 October 2014. Along with making
an umbrella scheme by incorporating other settlement is connected to the power grid
this year. 20 families were cut off from
schemes for the tribals, it was approved to be
the mainstream due to geographical
implemented further from 2021-22 to 2025-26
at a cost of Rs 26,135 crore. location. They were living in darkness for
decades. Villages near the settlement
n PRADHAN MANTRI JANJATIYA VIKAS had electricity connection but about 20
MISSION: This scheme has been prepared families of Jenu Kuruba community in
by merging two existing schemes to promote the tribal village were left out for some
tribal livelihoods - a mechanism for marketing reason. When PM-Janman Yojana for
of minor forest produce through minimum the upliftment of deprived tribal families
support price and development of value chain came, this settlement got the benefit.
for MFP, institutional support for development
and marketing of tribal produce.
Bihari Vajpayee created a separate ministry for the
n EKLAVYA MODEL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL: tribal society. Now, during the tenure of the present
This scheme was launched in 2018. 728 government, the budget of the Ministry of Tribal
schools will be established along with 288
schools already approved in the year 2018. Affairs has increased three times to more than Rs
The government has set a target of making all 12 thousand crore as compared to earlier, while the
728 schools functional by March 2026. From budget of tribal welfare has increased by 6 times.
the inception of the scheme till September It is important to make the tribal community a real
2023, construction of 170 schools has been stakeholder so that they are not left behind in the
completed while construction of more than development journey.
240 schools is in progress.
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