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19/09/24 10:08 AM IST

Cabinet approves Pradhan Mantri Janjatiya Unnat Gram Abhiyan

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  • The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi approved Pradhan Mantri Janjatiya Unnat Gram Abhiyan with total outlay of Rs.79,156 crore.
Pradhan Mantri Janjatiya Unnat Gram Abhiyan
  • A package that will provide up to ₹5 lakh each to tribal households and villages across the country, to turn their homes into tourist homestays or to build new ones under the Tourism Ministry’s Swadesh Darshan scheme.
  • This is meant to “tap the tourist potential of tribal areas” and to “provide alternate livelihood.
  • The PMJUGA package is aimed at ensuring the saturation of basic schemes in tribal villages, with interventions to be implemented by 17 Ministries, and funding coming from each Ministry’s allocated share in the Development Action Plan for Scheduled Tribes.
  • Together, this will involve an outlay of ₹79,156 crore, to be spent over five years, with a Central share of ₹56,333 crore, and a States’ share of ₹22,823 crore. 
  • The PMJUGA intends to bring sustainable agricultural practices to all Forest Rights Act (FRA) patta holders “to enable them for maintenance and conservation of forest.
Goals of the mission
Developing Enabling Infrastructure:
  • Pucca house for eligible Households with other entitlements: Eligible ST household shall have access to pucca housing under the PMAY (Gramin) with availability of tapped water (Jal Jeevan Mission) and electricity supply (RDSS). Eligible ST household shall also have access to Ayushman Bharat Card (PMJAY).
  • Improving Village infrastructure: Ensuring all weather road connectivity to ST majority villages (PMGSY), provide access to mobile connectivity  (Bharat Net) and internet, infrastructure for improving health, nutrition, and education (NHM, Samagra Shiksha and Poshan).
Promotion of Economic Empowerment:
  • Skill Development Entrepreneurship promotion and enhanced livelihood(self-employment) - Providing access to training (Skill India Mission/ JSS) and ensuring that ST boys/girls get access to long-term skill courses after 10th/12th standard every year. Further, Marketing support through Tribal Multipurpose Marketing Centre (TMMC), Tourist Home Stays and Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fishery support for FRA Patta holders
Universalization of Access to Good Education:
  • Education - To increase GER to the national levels in school and higher education and to make quality education affordable and accessible to ST students (Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan) by setting up tribal hostels in schools at district/block level.
 Healthy lives and Dignified Ageing:
  •  Health – To ensure enhanced access to quality health facilities to ST households, reach towards the national standards in IMR, MMR and coverage of immunisation through Mobile Medical Units in areas where sub centre is more than 10 km in plain areas and 5 kms in Hilly areas (National Health Mission).
Source- PIB

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