The scale is the argument. A programme covering 63,843 villages, 549 districts and more than 5 crore people is among the largest area-based development efforts in the country, and its design concedes something important: that universal schemes systematically under-reach tribal habitations, which are remote, dispersed and often inside or adjacent to forests where infrastructure is legally and physically harder to build. Convergence across 17 ministries is the mechanism, but it is also the risk - saturation depends on the slowest ministry, and a village counted as covered under one scheme may remain uncovered under four others. The linking of several targets to Forest Rights Act holders is the most interesting design choice. It uses welfare delivery to give practical value to recognised forest tenure, so that a patta is not merely a document but a gateway to agricultural, fisheries and livestock support - which in turn strengthens the incentive to complete FRA recognition itself.