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As on 30 June 2026, PM-JANMAN had sanctioned 4,82,554 houses for PVTG households under PMAY-G, of which 3,05,860 were complete, and 7,991.93 km of PMGSY roads, of which 2,948 km were complete.
Under the Jal Jeevan Mission component, 18,756 PVTG villages were sanctioned and 8,799 saturated; 831 Mobile Medical Units have been operationalised through the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Under the Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan, 474 Mobile Medical Units had been operationalised as of July 2026 and the Ministry of Tribal Affairs has approved 15 Centres of Competence dedicated to Sickle Cell Disease treatment.
PM-JANMAN covers 75 PVTG communities in 18 states and one union territory, delivering 11 interventions through nine line ministries.
Phase-I of the Adi Karmayogi Abhiyan mobilised about 15 lakh Adi Karmayogis, developed over 210 State, 2,200 District and 11,000 Block Master Trainers, and saw 62,187 Tribal Village Vision 2030 plans approved through Gram Sabhas.
Provide safe housing, clean drinking water, education, health and nutrition, road and telecom connectivity, household electrification and sustainable livelihoods to Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups
Key: Launched on 15 November 2023 from Khunti, Jharkhand, on Janjatiya Gaurav Divas, with a total outlay of ₹24,104 crore — a central share of ₹15,336 crore and a state share of ₹8,768 crore — for 2023-24 to 2025-26. It covers 75 PVTG communities in 18 states and one UT through 11 interventions delivered by nine line ministries, with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs as nodal.
Saturate critical gaps in social infrastructure, health, education and livelihoods across tribal-majority villages
Key: Approved by the Cabinet on 18 September 2024 with an outlay of ₹79,156 crore — ₹56,333 crore central and ₹22,823 crore state share — and launched from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand on 2 October 2024. It works through 25 interventions delivered by 17 line ministries and covers around 63,843 villages benefiting over 5 crore tribal people across 549 districts and 2,911 blocks in 30 States/UTs. Under it, 474 Mobile Medical Units were operational by July 2026 and 15 Centres of Competence for Sickle Cell Disease have been approved.
Create a cadre of trained government functionaries, community leaders, women's collectives and tribal youth to strengthen last-mile governance in tribal areas
Key: Phase-I built a cascading training architecture across roughly one lakh tribal villages in 30 States/UTs, mobilising about 15 lakh Adi Karmayogis and developing over 210 State Master Trainers, 2,200 District Master Trainers and 11,000 Block Master Trainers. Communities carried out household surveys, transect walks, focus group discussions and development-gap assessments, culminating in Tribal Village Vision 2030 documents and Village Action Plans approved by Gram Sabhas.
Give each village a single-window facilitation point for entitlements and grievances
Key: Adi Sewa Kendras function as village-level single-window centres for information, entitlement facilitation, grievance support and convergence with line departments; Adi Karmayogi Volunteers, drawn from local tribal youth, staff them day to day. Mapping of ASKs and registration of AKVs enables authenticated records and location-based monitoring, with weekly monitoring by the Ministry, states and district administrations.
Deliver supplementary nutrition, pre-school education, nutrition and health education, immunisation, health check-ups and referral services
Key: A Centrally Sponsored mission implemented by states and UTs, described in the reply as a universal self-selecting umbrella scheme with no entry barriers, operating across the country including in PVTG areas; its health-related services run through the National Health Mission and public health infrastructure.
PVTGs are identified from among Scheduled Tribes on criteria such as a pre-agricultural level of technology, very low literacy, a stagnant or declining population and economic backwardness. Seventy-five such groups are recognised, spread across 18 states and one union territory. Because these communities live in small, scattered and often remote habitations, ordinary demand-driven schemes reach them poorly: the beneficiary must know of the scheme, apply, and be selected. Saturation inverts that logic — the unit of planning becomes the habitation rather than the applicant, and the target is that every eligible household in it receives every applicable intervention. This is why PM-JANMAN is not a scheme of its own so much as a convergence framework: the housing comes from PMAY-G, roads from PMGSY, water from the Jal Jeevan Mission, nutrition from Poshan 2.0 and health from the National Health Mission, with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs coordinating rather than delivering. The reply's own caution matters here — actual coverage remains subject to the eligibility criteria of each intervention's guidelines, so saturation of a habitation does not mean every household in it qualifies.
Simple Analogy: Instead of waiting for people to come to eleven different counters, the counters are taken to the village and every eligible household is worked through in turn.
Nodal ministry for PM-JANMAN, DAJGUA and the Adi Karmayogi Abhiyan; coordinates with line ministries, state tribal welfare departments and forest departments, and reviews progress
Approved the 62,187 Tribal Village Vision 2030 plans under the Adi Karmayogi Abhiyan, making it the formal approving authority for village-level planning in this programme
Constitutional body that inquires into complaints regarding deprivation of the rights and safeguards of Scheduled Tribes and makes recommendations
Grants-in-aid from the Consolidated Fund of India for promoting the welfare of Scheduled Tribes and administering Scheduled Areas are the constitutional route through which much tribal-specific funding flows.
The 15 Centres of Competence approved under DAJGUA connect tribal welfare to the National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission, since the disease burden is concentrated in tribal populations.
PM-JANMAN, DAJGUA and PM-JUGA all deliver through other ministries' schemes rather than their own — the same design used in aspirational districts programmes, and a recurring GS2 theme on coordination failure and success.
Gram Sabha approval of Village Vision 2030 plans links this to PESA, the Forest Rights Act and the wider question of how far tribal self-governance is real in practice.
GS Paper 2 > Welfare Schemes for Vulnerable Sections of the Population by the Centre and States
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Tribal welfare schemes are among the most frequently asked scheme categories in Prelims and a standing GS2 Mains theme
Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group — a sub-category of Scheduled Tribes identified on criteria including pre-agricultural technology, low literacy and stagnant or declining population; 75 such groups are covered by PM-JANMAN.
Planning by habitation rather than by applicant, aiming to cover every eligible household with every applicable intervention.
A vehicle-based health team providing last-mile care in remote habitations; 831 are operational under PM-JANMAN.
Community-level cadres mobilised under the Adi Karmayogi Abhiyan — 6,79,309 and 4,03,306 respectively.
A village-level planning document prepared through participatory assessment and approved by the Gram Sabha; 62,187 have been approved.
A specialised treatment centre; 15 have been approved under DAJGUA for Sickle Cell Disease.