PRIME MINISTER’S PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE TRIBAL GROUPS (PM-PVTG) DEVELOPMENT MISSION - GOVERNANCE
News: House
panel apprehensive about ₹15,000 crore PM-PVTG allocation
What's in the news?
● Weeks
after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a ₹15,000 crore expenditure
layout for the Prime Minister’s Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PM-PVTG)
Development Mission, the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment
on March 14 expressed disappointment that such a massive budgetary allocation
had been planned when even the Ministry of Tribal Affairs does not have data on
PVTG populations in several States and Union Territories.
Key takeaways:
● PVTGs
are primitive vulnerable tribal groups, who live in around 31,000 villages of India’s 18 States and one Union Territory.
Pradhan Mantri-PVTG Development Mission:
Aim:
● To
improve overall socio-economic conditions of PVTGs.
Budget Outlay: ₹15000 crores.
Period:
Three years (2023-24 to 2025-26).
Coordination between the Ministries
● Ministry of Tribal
Affairs - Nodal Ministry.
● Rural Development
Ministry - housing component and road
connectivity.
● Jal Shakti Ministry
- Jal Jeevan Mission clean drinking water connections.
● Education Ministry
- building schools and hostels.
● Health Ministry
- filling gaps in healthcare for PVTGs.
● Women and Children
Development Ministry - get Anganwadi workers
on ground to work towards sensitization of PVTGs and ensuring they are able to
sign up for government benefits.
Features:
● The
scheme will ensure PVTG families and habitations with basic facilities such as safe housing, clean drinking water and
sanitation, improved access to education, health and nutrition, road and
telecom connectivity, and sustainable livelihood opportunities.
● The
goals are to build roads, telecom connectivity, water and sanitation.