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A Departmentally-related Standing Committee (DRSC) examining the Demand for Grants for Tribal Affairs Ministry pulled up the authorities connected Wednesday (March 11, 2026) for the “slow and tardy” advancement of enactment ministries successful administering flagship multi-ministry programmes for Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups and Scheduled Tribe communities crossed the country.
The programmes see saturation campaigns for PM-JANMAN and the ‘Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan’ (DAJGUA) schemes.
The House sheet went connected to accidental that this “directly points to heavy mismanagement successful the execution of the scheme”.
The DRSC connected Social Justice and Empowerment, chaired by BJP MP P.C. Mohan, connected Wednesday (March 11, 2026), tabled its study connected the Tribal Affairs ministry. In this report, the Committee noted that for some these scheme-saturation programmes, determination has been a inclination of allocations being reduced successful the revised estimation stage.
Commenting connected the advancement of the PM-JANMAN scheme, the Committee said, “There is dilatory and tardy advancement successful execution of works by the respective Ministries arsenic the enactment done by the Ministries like, M/o Rural Development, M/o Education and M/o Jal Shakti, which are lagging acold down the target.”
The PM-JANMAN is meant to people Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups wrong the Scheduled Tribes and is dispersed crossed 9 enactment ministries with 11 interventions successful areas of health, education, nutrition, roadworthy and connectivity, operation of Multi-purpose Centers and Anganwadis, installation of star panels, electrification and sanitation.
A examination of targets acceptable and advancement achieved showed that the Ministry of Rural Development had completed operation of 2.6 lakh of 4.7 lakh pucca homes sanctioned, and built 1,883 km of connecting roads retired of the sanctioned 7,317 km. The information submitted to the sheet further showed that the Ministry of Education had completed lone 10 of the 500 sanctioned hostels, with 296 having started work. Further, the Ministry of Jal Sahkti had been capable to link 8391 Villages to a piped h2o proviso against implicit 18,000 villages being sanctioned for this.
Further, the Ministry of Jal Shakti had been capable to link 8391 Villages to a piped h2o proviso against implicit 18,000 villages being sanctioned for this.
For the DAJGUA scheme, modelled aft the PM-JANMAN, akin observations were made by the House panel. It said Ministries of Rural Development, Jal Shakti, and New and Renewable Energy are “yet to commencement work”, and “several Ministries are yet to implicit tasks assigned for completion” by March this year.
The sheet said, “This straight points to the heavy mismanagement successful the execution of the scheme, the Committee are, truthful of the presumption that the Ministry should instrumentality capableness gathering measures and supply method enactment to implementing agencies, including section bodies and field-level officials truthful that the momentum picks up.”
