The government aims at adopting saturation coverage for tribal families in tribal-majority villages and aspirational districts by covering around 63,000 villages benefitting more than 5 crore tribal people as announced in the Budget Speech 2024-25.
It will cover 549 districts and 2,740 blocks spread across all tribal majority villages across 30 States / UTs, it said.
Further, the scheme comprises of 25 interventions which will be implemented by 17-line ministries, where each one would be responsible for implementation of scheme related to it in a time bound manner through funds allocated to them under Development Action Plan for Scheduled Tribes (DAPST) in next 5 years to achieve goals including building pucca house for eligible households with availability of tapped water (Jal Jeevan Mission) and electricity supply (RDSS).
Eligible ST household will also have access to Ayushman Bharat Card (PMJAY) as part of the scheme.
The government also aims to ensure 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).Skill Development Entrepreneurship promotion and enhanced livelihood(self-employment), universalization of access to good education, healthy lives and dignified ageing make other key aspects of the Tribal welfare scheme.The government has also said that the tribal villages covered under the anjatiya Unnat Gram mission would be mapped on PM Gati Shakti Portal with the gaps identified by concerned department for its scheme specific requirements.
