A Departmentally-related Standing Committee (DRSC) examining the Demand for Grants for Tribal Affairs Ministry pulled up the government on Wednesday (March 11, 2026) for the “slow and tardy” progress of line ministries in administering flagship multi-ministry programmes for Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups and Scheduled Tribe communities across the country.
The programmes include saturation campaigns for PM-JANMAN and the ‘Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan’ (DAJGUA) schemes.
The House panel went on to say that this “directly points to deep mismanagement in the execution of the scheme”.
The DRSC on Social Justice and Empowerment, chaired by BJP MP P.C. Mohan, on Wednesday (March 11, 2026), tabled its report on the Tribal Affairs ministry. In this report, the Committee noted that for both these scheme-saturation programmes, there has been a trend of allocations being reduced in the revised estimate stage.
More than 22,000 camps held in nine days to take DAJGUA to tribal villages
