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The Tribal Affairs Secretary chaired a component-wise review of PM-JANMAN and DA-JGUA, focusing on fund utilisation and implementation bottlenecks.
A Roadmap and Operational Guidelines for Integrated Tribal Development Agencies were shared with states.
Adi Darpan, a compendium on tribal development and scheme progress, was released.
Winners of the District Agri DPR Challenge were announced, alongside plans for a National Conclave on Tribal Women Entrepreneurs.
Saturate Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group habitations with basic services — housing, roads, water, electricity, education and health.
Key: Launched 15 November 2023 on Janjatiya Gaurav Divas with an outlay of Rs 24,104 crore, targeting 75 PVTG communities across 18 states and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, delivered through multiple ministries in convergence.
Extend saturation coverage from PVTG habitations to tribal-majority villages generally.
Key: Launched 2 October 2024 from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, with an outlay above Rs 79,000 crore, covering roughly 63,000 villages across 549 districts and 2,740 blocks and benefiting over 5 crore tribal people. It was designed on the learnings from PM-JANMAN.
Provide quality residential schooling to tribal children in Scheduled Areas.
Key: Run by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs; the schools are the ministry's principal education intervention alongside these two saturation missions.
Nodal ministry for PM-JANMAN, DA-JGUA and EMRS, and the convener of this review.
District and sub-district agencies for tribal development planning; the new Roadmap and Operational Guidelines set their governance framework.
Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India — markets tribal produce and handicrafts and runs the Van Dhan initiative.
Central unit monitoring physical and financial progress of the ministry's missions.
A sub-category of Scheduled Tribes identified as the most vulnerable on criteria including a pre-agricultural level of technology, a stagnant or declining population, extremely low literacy and a subsistence economy. There are 75 such groups, spread across 18 states and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Simple Analogy: Within the wider ST category, PVTGs are the group needing the most urgent support first.
GS Paper 2 > Governance > Welfare Schemes for Vulnerable Sections
General Awareness > Government Schemes
At the national level, which ministry is the nodal agency to ensure effective implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006?
Answer: Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group — 75 communities identified within the Scheduled Tribes as the most vulnerable, across 18 states and one UT.
Observed on 15 November, the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda; PM-JANMAN was launched on this day in 2023.
Delivering a defined package of services to every eligible household in a target area, rather than to selected beneficiaries.