LPG, hostel and road connectivity see least progress in Centre’s scheme for tribals
A government review of the DAJGUA scheme for tribal development reveals significant delays in infrastructure projects like hostels, road connectivity, and LPG distribution. Officials cite procedural bottlenecks as the primary reason for the slow progress.
Why it matters
The failure to meet targets in a major social welfare scheme highlights systemic challenges in delivering basic services to marginalized tribal communities.
Nearly two years into the government’s Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan (DAJGUA) programme for basic interventions in targeted tribal-dominated villages, progress has been slow, with the least progress seen so far in interventions that were supposed to be under the Union Ministry of Education, the Union Rural Development Ministry, and the Union Jal Shakti Ministry, among others, a review of the scheme by the Centre shows.
The DAJGUA scheme has been running since October 2024 and was intended to bring as many as 25 interventions to remote tribal villages and blocks under 17 Ministries.
Since the programme was launched, only four out of the 692 sanctioned hostels for Scheduled Tribes (ST) students across the country have been completed, with the Education Ministry having released about 27% of the funds sanctioned for this intervention. Foundation stones have been laid for about 300 hostels, government data shows.
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