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With much than one-third of the sanctioned Eklavya schools for tribal children not yet functional, chiefly due to the fact that of onshore unavailability, a House sheet connected Tuesday (December 9, 2025) told the Ministry of Tribal Affairs not to authorisation caller schools until onshore has been made available.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee connected Social Justice and Empowerment connected Tuesday tabled a study connected the enactment taken by the authorities connected its recommendations made earlier this year.
In this report, the sheet noted that the unavailability of onshore for operation is simply a crushed the Tribal Affairs Ministry is incapable to walk a information of its allocation for Eklavya schools.
It further noted that retired of 722 sanctioned EMRS locations, lone 477 had been made functional, retired of which 341 were being tally from their ain buildings. In replies to the House panel, headed by BJP MP P.C. Mohan, the authorities cited the unavailability of onshore arsenic a crushed for implicit 130 schools being tally from rented oregon different authorities buildings.
In a study tabled connected Tuesday, the House sheet said, “The Committee are truthful of the beardown presumption that successful aboriginal the connection of mounting up of EMRS from State Governments should beryllium considered by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs lone erstwhile they guarantee beforehand, the availability of onshore required for the purpose.” The sheet said it expected the authorities to “deliberate connected this contented urgently”.
The House sheet besides looked astatine the projected upgrade of Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRSs) that were constructed nether the older mentation of the scheme. The sheet recommended that the Tribal Affairs Ministry travel up with a timeline for the completion of this work. In its assessment, the House sheet had earlier noted that these schools lacked basal facilities similar “compound walls, labs, hostels, unit quarters, etc.”
The Parliamentary Committee, successful its report, besides took contented with the government’s dilatory advancement successful mounting up Tribal Freedom Fighters’ Museums crossed the country. The sheet had earlier noted that the authorities had inaugurated conscionable 3 retired of the 10 projected museums to honour the contributions of Adivasi state fighters.
The sheet reiterated its proposal to velocity up this project, and asked the authorities to instrumentality to its timelines and debar delays and outgo escalations. It besides noted that the authorities could not guarantee the sheet that the enactment connected museums acceptable to person been finished by the extremity of 2025 and 2026 was on track.
