Tribal Welfare Scheme

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the Centre will launch a scheme worth Rs 24,000 crore for the welfare of tribals in the country on Wednesday when the entire nation will celebrate Bhagwan Birsa Munda's birth anniversary

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the Centre will launch a scheme worth Rs 24,000 crore for the welfare of tribals in the country on Wednesday, when the entire nation will celebrate Bhagwan Birsa Munda's birth anniversary.

Briefing media about the steps being taken by the government for the welfare of tribals, the minister said that financial allocations under centrally sponsored schemes have been increased significantly.

A 38-year-old tribal woman was set on fire by a group of men after encroaching on land that her family got in a government welfare scheme in Madhya Pradesh.

The Bombay High Court on Monday said welfare schemes for the tribal population are only on paper and sought to know from the Maharashtra government what steps it has taken to prevent deaths of children due to malnutrition in the tribal regions.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath today announced that loans taken from private moneylenders by tribals in the state will be waived off under a government scheme, and the process in this regard will start on August 15.

Economically backward Dalit and tribal students at a college in Madhya Pradesh are seething over a bag they have received under a government welfare scheme. The black bags have SC/ST welfare scheme prominently written on them, identifying them as Scheduled caste and Tribes.

The 'community kitchen' scheme, a nutritional meal programme envisaged to address the malnutrition issues of tribals in Kerala, will soon be extended to all tribal hamlets across the state, Minister for Welfare of Scheduled Tribes AK Balan said in Thiruvananthapuram today.

The West Bengal government has decided to introduce a social security scheme for the tribal kendu leaf collectors in three districts, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the Centre will launch a scheme worth Rs 24,000 crore for the welfare of tribals in the country on Wednesday when the entire nation will celebrate Bhagwan Birsa Munda's birth anniversary

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the Centre will launch a scheme worth Rs 24,000 crore for the welfare of tribals in the country on Wednesday, when the entire nation will celebrate Bhagwan Birsa Munda's birth anniversary.

Briefing media about the steps being taken by the government for the welfare of tribals, the minister said that financial allocations under centrally sponsored schemes have been increased significantly.

A 38-year-old tribal woman was set on fire by a group of men after encroaching on land that her family got in a government welfare scheme in Madhya Pradesh.

The Bombay High Court on Monday said welfare schemes for the tribal population are only on paper and sought to know from the Maharashtra government what steps it has taken to prevent deaths of children due to malnutrition in the tribal regions.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath today announced that loans taken from private moneylenders by tribals in the state will be waived off under a government scheme, and the process in this regard will start on August 15.

Economically backward Dalit and tribal students at a college in Madhya Pradesh are seething over a bag they have received under a government welfare scheme. The black bags have SC/ST welfare scheme prominently written on them, identifying them as Scheduled caste and Tribes.

The 'community kitchen' scheme, a nutritional meal programme envisaged to address the malnutrition issues of tribals in Kerala, will soon be extended to all tribal hamlets across the state, Minister for Welfare of Scheduled Tribes AK Balan said in Thiruvananthapuram today.

The West Bengal government has decided to introduce a social security scheme for the tribal kendu leaf collectors in three districts, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday.