NEW DELHI: Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Pradhan Mantri Janjatiya Unnat Gram Abhiyan for improving the socio-economic condition of tribal communities by adopting saturation coverage for them in tribal-majority villages and aspirational districts.
This will cover around 63,000 villages, benefiting more than 5 crore tribal people, as announced in Budget 2024-25 .
The scheme has a total outlay of Rs 79,156 crore comprising of a central share of Rs 56,333 crore and state share of Rs 22,823 crore.
India has an ST population of 10.45 crore as per the 2011 census, and there are more than 705 tribal communities living in remote and hard-to-reach areas.
The abhiyan comprises 25 interventions which will be implemented by 17-line ministries. Each ministry will be responsible for time-bound implementation in the next 5 years to achieve targets such as identifying and enabling eligible ST households to access pucca housing under the PMAY (Gramin) with availability of tapped water and electricity supply. Eligible ST households will also be linked to health scheme Ayushman Bharat Card (PMJAY).
The rural development ministry has a target of building 20 lakh houses and 25,000 km of roads.
The ministries have to ensure all weather road connectivity to ST majority villages, access to mobile connectivity and internet, and infrastructure for improving health, nutrition and education.
The scheme also focusses on health and dignified ageing. It calls for enhanced access to quality health facilities to ST households like coverage of through Mobile Medical Units in areas where a sub-centre is more than 10 km away in plain areas and 5 km in hilly areas. Thousand such units have to be developed.
This will cover around 63,000 villages, benefiting more than 5 crore tribal people, as announced in Budget 2024-25 .
The scheme has a total outlay of Rs 79,156 crore comprising of a central share of Rs 56,333 crore and state share of Rs 22,823 crore.
India has an ST population of 10.45 crore as per the 2011 census, and there are more than 705 tribal communities living in remote and hard-to-reach areas.
The abhiyan comprises 25 interventions which will be implemented by 17-line ministries. Each ministry will be responsible for time-bound implementation in the next 5 years to achieve targets such as identifying and enabling eligible ST households to access pucca housing under the PMAY (Gramin) with availability of tapped water and electricity supply. Eligible ST households will also be linked to health scheme Ayushman Bharat Card (PMJAY).
The rural development ministry has a target of building 20 lakh houses and 25,000 km of roads.
The ministries have to ensure all weather road connectivity to ST majority villages, access to mobile connectivity and internet, and infrastructure for improving health, nutrition and education.
The scheme also focusses on health and dignified ageing. It calls for enhanced access to quality health facilities to ST households like coverage of through Mobile Medical Units in areas where a sub-centre is more than 10 km away in plain areas and 5 km in hilly areas. Thousand such units have to be developed.
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