Inside the government’s efforts to create a “cadre” of 20 lakh “change leaders” for tribal villages under the Tribal Affairs Ministry’s Adi Karmayogi initiative is a training programme that involves conducting activities such as “candle-lighting”, role-play games, cognitive group exercises, and “knot-tying” and “fish-bowl” exercises — activities that are being conducted among State, district, and block officials now and will percolate to the village levels in the coming months.
Government officials told The Hindu that the idea is to adopt a “participatory” approach to problem-solving. This involves driving home messages such as “the solution comes from within”, “not dwelling on problems”, “initiating action”, and “creating opportunity from challenges”, according to the Ministry’s concept note for the initiative, which is being run under the Dharti Aba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyaan (DAJGUA) programme for last-mile scheme delivery.
