PM-JANMAN

• 15 Jan 2024

Why in News?

Prime Minister will release Rs 540 crore, the first installment of funding pucca homes under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) to one lakh Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) beneficiary families as a part of recently launched PM-JANMAN
(Pradhan Mantri-Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan Scheme), package for the overall development of PVTG habitations.

Key Points

• PM-JANMAN (comprising Central Sector and Centrally Sponsored Schemes) was launched for the socio-economic welfare of PVTGs on 15^th November 2023 in Khunti, Jharkhand, on the occasion of Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas.
• PM-JANMAN, with a budget of approximately Rs 24,000 crore, focuses on 11 critical interventions through 9 Ministries.
• An amount of Rs.15,000 crore will be made available to implement the Mission in the next three years under the Development Action Plan for the Scheduled Tribes (DAPST).
• It is part of the Pradhan Mantri Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups Development Mission that finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced in the Union Budget 2023-24 in February 2023.
• It is aimed to improve socio-economic conditions of the PVTGs by saturating PVTG households and habitations with basic facilities such as safe housing, clean drinking water and sanitation, electricity, road and telecom connectivity etc.
• India has a Scheduled Tribes population of 10.45 crore as per 2011 census, out of which 75 communities located in 18 States and the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands have been categorized as PVTGs.