Context: Recently, the Ministry of Tribal Affairs launched the Tribal Welfare Outreach Campaign to implement tribal welfare schemes across over 500 districts in India.
Relevance of the Topic: Prelims: About outreach campaign for the implementation of its welfare schemes, PM JANMAN, Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan.
Tribal Welfare Outreach Campaign:
- The Ministry of Tribal Affairs has rolled out a large-scale outreach campaign for the implementation of its welfare schemes in over 500 districts of the country, aiming to cover 1 lakh tribal dominated villages and habitations.
- The outreach is a part of the Centre’s ongoing year-long celebration of the Janjatiya Gaurav Varsh. The Centre began this celebration on November 15, 2024, the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda.
- Objective: The campaign is centered around ‘benefit saturation’ camps aimed at last mile doorstep delivery of two key flagship schemes:
- Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan (PM JANMAN)
- Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan.
Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan (PM JANMAN):
- Launched in 2023
- Objective: Address socio-economic challenges faced by Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs)
- Focus: Basic facilities and welfare services to PVTGs, including- housing, water, sanitation, education, health, connectivity, and livelihood opportunities.
- Delivery Mechanism: Localised camps offering documentation, health cards, financial inclusion, and welfare enrolment.
Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan:
- Launched in 2024. Named after Birsa Munda, revered tribal freedom fighter also known as Dharti Aaba (Father of the Earth)
- Objective: Comprehensive development of tribal areas and communities by addressing critical gaps in infrastructure, healthcare, education, and livelihoods.
- Enabling infrastructure and enhancing socio-economic conditions in selected tribal-majority villages (with a population of 500 or more, and at least 50% tribal residents as well as villages in Aspirational Districts with a tribal population of 50 or more).
- 17 Ministries of the Government of India will unite for the welfare of tribal communities through 25 focus interventions. Each line ministry has been allocated budget and targets under the scheme. Construction of hostels, rural electrification, building of homes under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, livestock support and fisheries support etc.
- Nodal Agency: Ministry of Tribal Affairs
- The Mission will span a period of 5 years, from 2024-25 to 2028-29.
The outreach campaign will run for a fortnight. Among its focal points are providing basic documentation to tribal communities in the form of Aadhaar cards, Ayushman Bharat cards through enrolment, grant of titles under the Forest Rights Act, and opening of pension accounts as well as Jan Dhan accounts.