With outlay hike for residential schools, welfare schemes, tribal affairs budget up by 45%

Three important initiatives of the ministry — Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS), Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan (PM JANMAN) and Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Utkarsh Abhiyan (DA-JGUA) — saw summation successful outlay successful the Union Budget.

Eklavya Model Residential Schools volition person Rs 7,088.60 crore, up from Rs 4,748 crore (revised estimates) past year. Launched successful 2018, the nonsubjective of the programme is to acceptable up residential schools for students from the Scheduled Tribes assemblage with an purpose to to supply them prime education.

The authorities has acceptable a people of making 728 Eklavya Model Residential Schools functional by March 2026 for 3.5 lakh tribal students.

The Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Utkarsh Abhiyan scheme, targeted towards saturation sum of authorities schemes successful health, infrastructure, acquisition and livelihood, saw its allocation quadruple — expanding from Rs 500 crore to Rs 2,000 crore.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the strategy astatine Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh up of the Assembly elections past year, with an outlay of Rs 79,156 crore (central share:`56,333 crore and authorities share: Rs 22,823 crore).

The Budget for Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan, aimed to amended the socio-economic conditions of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups has been doubled from Rs 150 crore (revised estimate) to Rs 300 crore for 2025-26.

First-time entrepreneurs

Though nary caller strategy was announced for the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, which enactment towards the payment of the marginalised communities, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that a caller strategy volition beryllium launched for 5 lakh women, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes first-time entrepreneurs.

“This volition supply word loans up to 2 crore during the adjacent 5 years. The strategy volition incorporated lessons from the palmy Stand-Up India scheme. Online capableness gathering for entrepreneurship and managerial skills volition besides beryllium organised,” Sitharaman said during her Budget speech.

For the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment has been allocated Rs 13,611 crore, a 35.75% hike from Rs 10,026.40 crore (revised estimate) past year. The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities budgetary allocation has been hiked by 9.22% to Rs 1,275 crore from Rs 1,167.27 crore (revised estimate).

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