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Year End Review - Tribal Affairs
Year End Review - Tribal Affairs
Year End Review - Tribal Affairs
Government of India
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs is the nodal Ministry for overall policy, planning and
coordination of programmes for development of ST’s. To this end, Ministry of Tribal
Affairs has undertaken activities that follow from the subjects allocated under the
Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules, 1961.
This is year saw considerable progress in digital mechanisms and online monitoring
systems especially for scholarship schemes and expenditure of funds for tribal
welfare. Tribal medicine emerged as another priority area along with tribal research.
Expansion of Eklavya Model Residential Schools was stepped up this year while
empowerment of tribals through schemes like Van Dhan Yojana and Aadi Mahotsavs
also remained on the forefront. Affirmation of tribal rights and their role in forest
development was another another important highlight this year.
Out of the total budgetary allocation of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs to the tune of Rs.
6847.89 crore, a total of Rs. 5160.97 crore (i.e. 75.37%) has already been spent on
various schemes.
TRANSFORMATIONAL INITIATIVES w.r.t SCHOLARSHIP SCHEMES
The applications for the academic year 2019-20 are under verification and final merit
list will be prepared by January 2020.
Integration with digi-locker:During the year, both Fellowship and Overseas Portals
have been integrated with Digi Locker. The student registers on Digi-locker and
Scholarship Portal with same Log-IN ID and Password. All documents available on
Digi-Locker are automatically fetched and visible on application form. In case some
document is not available on Digi-locker, student has option to upload it manually in
application form. This has prevented uploading of fake and fraudulent documents
and has made verification process easy.
DBT portal for post matric:As mandated by DBT Mission- Cabinet Secretariat,
Ministry of Tribal Affairs is the first Ministry to develop DBT-Portal (dbttribal.gov.in)
for Post Matric Scholarship. The portal has facilitated data sharing, eased
communication and improved monitoring mechanism which expedited budget
release process. Ministry of Tribal Affairs could utilize its entire budget of Rs. 2000 cr.
by releasing funds available in BE to States in September 2019.
The States have been given facility to share beneficiary data online through Web
services, Excel/CSV file or through Manual Entry of Data depending on IT capability
of State. As different States/UTs have Portals on different platforms, using different
databases and different format, a 31 field common format has been designed for Data
sharing by States. As the Portal was rolled out in June 2019, data of about 45 lac
beneficiaries has been uploaded by States for FY 2017-18 and 2018-19 through "Data
Sharing Module". During the year, 9 states/UTs which were processing Scholarships
manually have been brought on National Scholarship Portal, including J&K, Manipur,
Andaman and Nicobar, Daman Diu, Dadra-Nagar Haveli, Goa etc.
In DBT Portal, the States have been given facility to upload queries, documents
Utilization Certificate, Statement of Expenditure online. All important notices and
letters are sent through portal and has facility of sending Bulk messages in order to
have better communication with states. The "Communication Module" has
substantially reduced time earlier taken through physical mode.
The Portal has facility to generate various MIS reports like State wise, Institute wise,
gender wise, Stream wise beneficiaries report for monitoring. These e-initiatives
have resulted in paradigm shift from manual paper-based UC Based monitoring to
Data Based online monitoring.There is Standardization of data collection process and
Data sharing is mandated for release of funds.There is mapping of funds released and
their utilization.However,States need continuous hand holding, persuasion and
efforts for loading complete and correct data.
Data analyticsand MIS reports: Centre for Data Analytics (CEDA), under NIC has
been entrusted with task of analysing data captured on all 4 Scholarship Portals. In 2
years there is data bank of 45 lacs Students getting scholarship from CS and CSS
schemes. ''State Wise Data Analysis Reports" are shared with states online on DBT-
TRIBAL Portal and regular meetings are held with States through regular VCs, State
visits by MoTA Officers and vice versa. Standardisation of Data and getting clean and
correct data is a mammoth exercise, which would need constant follow up by a
dedicated team. The database has capability of generating various MIS reports like
State wise, Institute wise, gender wise, Stream wise report for monitoring and
coordination with universities and students.
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs approved the Van Dhan Scheme Guidelines on
26.02.2019 while the scheme is to be implemented by TRIFED. Nearly Rs 100 cr have
been sanctioned this year for setting up 676 VDVKs in 18 States covering 200,740
beneficiaries for livelihood generation .
TRIFED has also conducted two National level advocacy workshops and 5 State
level advocacy workshops TRIFED is also developing a robust web-based IT
l tf d bil li ti f d t ll ti t ki d it i f
platform and mobile application for data collection, tracking, and monitoring of
all the activities under PMVDY.
The number of MFPs notified have been revised from 23 to 49 under Mechanism for
Marketing of Minor Forest Produce (MFP) through Minimum Support Price (MSP) and
Development of Value Chain for MFP’.
STREAMLINING FUNDING OF NGOs
Ministry is funding about 250 NGOs for 350 projects mainly on Health and Education
in deficient service area, LWS areas, Border areas. In order to bring transparency
and efficiency in release of funds to NGOs, the process of inviting applications,
verification and release of funds is through a dedicated NGO portal (
https://ngograntsmota.gov.in.). Each NGO can now track status of its application. In
order to ensure NGOs utilize funds for the given purpose only, funds are monitored
through EAT Module. On the portal NGOs have been given facility to upload queries,
documents and grievance through Communication Module. Various Regional
Workshops are also organized. Some of these 'e-governance initiatives for ST Welfare
Schemes' were launched on 12th June, 2019 at Ambedkar Bhavan, New Delhi by
Minister for Tribal Affairs.
Ministryhas also initiated process of grading of NGOs on basis of defined criteria.
Those NGOs whose performance would be below mark would be given time to
improve. In case they do not confirm to standards defined by MoTA, their grants may
not be renewed. A 3 day workshop was organized in Delhi to train these NGOs on use
of EAT Module for financial transparency and were asked to share their best
practices.
TRI Uttarakhand has been made nodal TRI for coordination of research works being
conducted for tribal medicine by various CoEs and TRIS so as to create a centralized
knowledge hub on the subject. MoTA intends to entrust subjects to other TRIs also for
PAC India coordination and management of centralized information system on the
subject.
TRIBAL RESEARCH, CULTURE AND MUSEUMS
Ministry has mooted the proposal for setting up of National Level Tribal Research
Institute to act as a knowledge hub and repository of information related to STs. The
NTRI is to spearhead research and evaluation studies on tribal issues and to provide
handholding support to State TRIs in their functioning. NITI Aayog has provided in-
principle approval for the NTRI.
State Tribal Research cum Cultural Centre and Museum was inaugurated on 21/08/19
at Dehradun, capital city of the State. Built at a cost of Rs. 12 crore released by
Ministry of Tribal Affairs, this imposing 2 storied centre is expected to play a major
role in propagation of rich tribal culture and traditions of Uttarakhand besides
research activities.
TRI Uttarakhand has been made nodal TRI for coordination of research works being
conducted for tribal medicine by various CoEs and TRIS so as to create a centralized
knowledge hub on the subject. MoTA intends to entrust subjects to other TRIs also for
PAC India coordination and management of centralized information system on the
subject.
Programme to establish 462 new EMRS across India launched by the Prime Minister
India on 12th September, 2019 at Ranchi, Jharkhand.55 EMRSs have been made
functional this year with an enrolment of 4833 new students. Cumulatively 284
schools have become functional with an enrolment of 72839 students as on date.
Second edition of the National EMRS Cultural Fest was organized at Udaipur,
Rajasthan from 28th to 30th November, 2019 to exhibit the rich tribal culture and
heritage.
National EMRS Sports Meet, 2019 has been organized at Bhopal, MP, which saw the
participation of EMRS students from 21 States across the nation. The event was held
from 9th to 13th December, 2019 to showcase and encourage the tribal students in
various disciplines of sports.
In collaboration with TRIFED, M/o Tribal Affairs organised a National Tribal Festival
“Aadi Mahotsav” atDilliHaat, INA, New Delhi from 16th November to 30th November
2019 to disseminate rich tribal culture, heritage and traditions of the region. Union
Home Minister Shri Amit Shah inaugurated the festival. Further, funds have been
sanctioned to TRIFED for organizing similar festivals at 20 different locations
nationwide including at Leh in the Union Territory of Ladakh where it was organized
on 17/08/19.
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NB/SK/jk/Tribal Affairs-Year End Review- 2019/30-12-2019