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NSTFDC and HPCL signed an MoU to set up integrated Computer Lab-cum-Smart Classroom facilities in 29 functional EMRSs across 11 districts of Rajasthan.
HPCL's Board has approved ₹16.01 crore from CSR; the project is to be finished within six months of signing.
Each school gets four smart classrooms, a networked computer lab, 10 tablets with competitive-exam coaching material and one year of internet.
The schools serve over 10,000 ST students a year, with a sanctioned capacity of 13,920 in Classes VI-XII.
NSTFDC implements and procures, NESTS validates academically, and the State EMRS Society and principals handle site readiness.
Quality residential education for Scheduled Tribe children, Classes VI-XII, in their own environment.
Key: Started 1997-98, funded from grants under Article 275(1); revamped 2018-19 to put an EMRS in every block with more than 50% ST population and at least 20,000 tribal persons (Census 2011). 740 schools were planned; the Union Minister has since stated a target of 728.
Mandatory social spending by large companies.
Key: Applies to a company with net worth above ₹500 crore, turnover above ₹1,000 crore or net profit above ₹5 crore; it must spend at least 2% of average net profit of the preceding three years.
Set up in 2001; not-for-profit government company (Section 25, Companies Act 1956, now Section 8 of the 2013 Act); finances ST self-employment and education; implementing and procuring agency here.
Autonomous society set up in 2019 under MoTA to manage EMRSs nationally; academic validation here.
Created in October 1999 by bifurcating the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment; nodal ministry for STs and EMRS.
Oil-marketing CPSE; Maharatna since October 2019; ONGC bought the Government's 51.11% stake in January 2018, making HPCL its subsidiary.
Grants-in-aid charged on the Consolidated Fund of India for ST welfare and Scheduled Areas; the original funding source of EMRS.
The CSR mandate under which HPCL funds this project.
GS Paper 2 > Welfare Schemes for Vulnerable Sections > Scheduled Tribes
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
Eklavya Model Residential Schools — residential schools for ST students, Classes VI-XII.
Grants-in-aid from the Consolidated Fund of India to states for ST welfare and Scheduled Area administration.
The top tier of CPSE status, giving boards the widest financial autonomy.