Parliament Question: Budget Allocation under Tribal Schemes

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF TRIBAL AFFAIRS LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO- 3152 TO BE ANSWERED ON- 07/08/2025 BUDGET ALLOCATION UNDER TRIBAL SCHEME 3152 DR. NISHIKANT DUBEY:

SHRI RAJKUMAR ROAT:

Will the Minister of TRIBAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

(a) the details of the total number of tribals in the country, State-wise, especially in Jharkhand;

(b) the total budget sanctioned and allocated to various departments by the Government for the Ministry of Tribal Affairs during the last ten years along with the details of the expenditure incurred therefrom, year, scheme and State-wise;

(c) the total budgetary expenditure incurred by the Government under various departmental schemes for Scheduled Tribes during the last ten years and the additional budget allocated for schemes other than those of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs out of this expenditure;

(d) the number of beneficiaries benefitted from the budget of various departments and the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, scheme-wise;

(e) whether the Government proposes to allocate the Central tribal budget directly to State Tribal Advisory Committees and District Tribal Councils for expenditure at their level, if so, the details thereof along with the time by which it is likely to be done and if not, the reasons therefor;

and

(f) whether the Government would allocate more funds for tribals and if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor? ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE FOR TRIBAL AFFAIRS (SHRI DURGADAS UIKEY)

(a) The details of the total number of tribals in the country including Jharkhand, State-wise as per census 2011, is given in Annexure 1.

(b) The total budget sanctioned / allocated by the government for ministry of Tribal Affairs is attached as Annexure 2(A). Details of the expenditure thereof, year, scheme and State-wise is given in Annexure 2(B)

(c) Government is implementing Development Action Plan for Scheduled Tribes (DAPST) as a strategy for the development of Scheduled Tribes and areas having tribal concentration. 41 Ministries/Departments are allocating certain percentage of their total scheme budget every year for tribal development under DAPSTfor various tribal development projects relating to education, health, agriculture, irrigation, roads, housing, electrification, employment generation, skill development, etc. Ministry of Tribal Affairs is implementing various schemes/programmes for the welfare and development of the of the Scheduled Tribes (STs) in the country. The total budgetary expenditure incurred by the Government under various departmental schemes for Scheduled Tribes during the last ten years and the additional budget allocated for schemes other than those of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs out of this expenditure is attached at Annexure 3.

(d) The number of beneficiaries benefitted from the budget of various departments and the Ministry of Tribal

Affairs is listed below:

For Post Matric Scholarship and Pre Matric Scholarship no. of beneficiaries is 1988462 and 944000 for 2023-24 respectively. For National Overseas Scholarship for ST students and National Fellowship for ST students no of beneficiaries is 65 and 2975 respectively for 2023-24. For Scholarship for Higher Education (Top Class Education) no of beneficiaries is 5429 for 2023-24. For Grants in aid for voluntary Organisations, number of beneficiaries are 730461 for 2024-25.

As per PMAG-Y portal, the total no of beneficiaries in Awas Yojana under DAPST is presently 6288872 completed houses for scheduled tribe community.

For Ekalavya Model Residential School (EMRS), as on date, 728 schools have been approved, out of which 479 EMRSs have been reported to be functional across the country benefiting about 1,38,336 ST students including 70,137 girl students.

For PM JANMAN the number of beneficiaries is not maintained however the physical achievements are listed

below:

PM-JANMAN Mission Target (2023- Cumulative Target till Physical Name of Ministry Sanction details

2026) March 2025 Achievements 90892 houses

4.90 lakh houses 292887 houses 396340 houses M/o Rural completed.

Development 205 Km road 8000 km road 2100 km road 4831.62 km road completed M/o Health and Family 1000 MMU (725 MMUs 687 MMUs 558 MMU 687 MMUs Welfare sufficient to cover all) operationalized 6737 Villages 100% M/o Jal Shakti 18810 Villages 10695 Villages 17873 Villages Saturated M/o Women and Child 1001 AWCs made 2500 1333 2139 AWCs Development operational.

Work started in 52 M/o Education 500 303 194 Hostels Hostels.

92311 HHs M/o Power 142133 HHs 85502 HHs 142133 HHs Electrified As per identification of As per identification of M/o New and 1934 HHs beneficiaries eligible for beneficiaries eligible for 9961 HHs Renewable Energy Electrified off-grid off-grid 2595 habitations Coverage of 4543 Coverage of 2462 901 Habitations M/o Communications planned for habitations habitations covered CoverageWork started in 532 1000 600 966 MPCs MPCs.

M/o Tribal Affairs 156 VDVKs 500 450 506 VDVKs Operational

(e) The Central Government does not allocate the central tribal budget directly to State Tribal Advisory Committees and District Tribal Councils for expenditure at their level.

(f) The increasing trend on allocation and expenditure may be seen in annexure 2(A).Annexure - 1 State / UT wise Population of Scheduled Tribes: Census 2011 Sl. No. India / State / UTs Person INDIA 104545716 1 JAMMU & KASHMIR (UT) 1275106 2 LADAKH (UT) 218193 3 HIMACHAL PRADESH 392126 4 UTTARAKHAND 291903 5 RAJASTHAN 9238534 6 UTTAR PRADESH 1134273 7 BIHAR 1336573 8 SIKKIM 206360 9 ARUNACHAL PRADESH 951821 10 NAGALAND 1710973 11 MANIPUR 1167422 12 MIZORAM 1036115 13 TRIPURA 1166813 14 MEGHALAYA 2555861 15 ASSAM 3884371 16 WEST BENGAL 5296953 17 JHARKHAND 8645042 18 ODISHA 9590756 19 CHHATTISGARH 7822902 20 MADHYA PRADESH 15316784 21 GUJARAT 8917174 22 DAMAN & DIU and DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI 193927 23 MAHARASHTRA 10510213 24 TELANGANA 3286928 25 ANDHRA PRADESH 2631145 26 KARNATAKA 4248987 27 GOA 149275 28 LAKSHADWEEP 61120 29 KERALA 484839 30 TAMIL NADU 794697 31 ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS 28530

Source: Office of the Registrar General, India

Note: No Notified Scheduled Tribes in Punjab, Chandigarh, Haryana, NCT of Delhi and Puducherry as in 2011Annexure 2(A) (In crores) Expenditure/Allocation to various schemes of MoTA E E EX EX EXP EXP EXP EX EX RE BE XP XP P P. . . . P. P.

Name of Scheme 20 20 20 202 202 202 201 201 17- 18- 2019- 2020- 2021- 22- 3-2 4-2 5-2 5-16 6-17 18 19 20 21 22 23 4 5 6

(A) Schemes SCA to TSP (Pradhan Mantri Adi Adarsh Gra 1132.1 1195.0 1350. 1349. 1354. 149.9 127.5 335.9

1349.86 799.49 784.99 m Yojna-PMAAGY) 7 3 01 81 37 3 1 7

1392.4 1265.8 1510. 1819. 976.4 1172. 1170. 1541.

Grants under Article 275 (1) 2662.53 800.00 923.44 6 6 70 82 9 10 57 47 Grants to ASSAM Govt.under clause (a) of the Second proviso to Article 275 (1) of the Constit 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 ution

1999. 2447. 4748. 7088.

Eklavya Model Residential School (EMRS) 16.21 1200.00 1057.74 32 06 92 60 Support to NSTFDC 63.33 60.00 55.00 65.00 80.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Aid to Voluntary Organizations working for th 119.9 114.0 109.2 149.9 160.0 175.0

75.05 120.00 94.84 59.66 89.43 e Scheduled Tribes 4 0 5 5 0 0 Marketing and Logistics Development for Pro moting Tribal Products from North-Eastern Re 36.00 0.00 0.00 2.00 0.00 gion Pradhan Mantri Janjatiya Vikas Mission (PMJ 117.1 137.1 152.3 380.4 VM) 2 0 2 0 Venture Capital Fund for STs 20.00 0.00 0.00 30.00 Development of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal 239.4 250.0 137.1

213.54 340.21 250.00 140.00 160.00 0.00 74.55 0.00 Group (PVTGs) 9 0 8 Institutional Support for Development and Mar

34.85 49.00 44.95 72.50 128.50 105.00 113.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 keting of Tribal Products.

111.0 Support to Tribal Research Institutes (TRIs) 11.50 15.11 79.00 99.99 109.98 60.00 60.00 12.40 43.54 90.00 0 Minimum Support Price for Minor Forest Prod

117.69 2.00 8.59 96.85 164.64 82.86 106.29 0.00 0.00 0.00 uce (MSP for MFP) National Fellowship and Scholarship for Highe 145.0 230.0 240.0

46.84 79.98 99.72 99.98 99.89 120.00 119.98 0.02 r Education of ST students 0 0 0 Scholarship to the ST Students for Studies Abr

0.39 0.39 1.00 2.00 1.90 4.76 4.95 4.00 7.00 6.00 0.01 oad

294.0 311.5 357.3 308.5 200.0 313.7 Pre-Matric Scholarship 440.00 248.90 394.14 8 0 0 9 0 9

1463. 1647. 1965. 2668. 2462. 2462.

Post-Matric Scholarship 1863.33 1830.18 2257.72 91 56 00 83 68 68 Boys & Girls Hostels 7.00 Ashram Schools 7.00 Vocational Training Centers 0.00 Umbrella Programme for Development of Sche 1173.6 1659.8

duled Tribes: Tribal Education 7 4Tribal Festivals, Research Information & Mass Education [Tribal Research, Information, Educ 7.87 4.69 4.01 23.35 23.23 9.00 14.61 15.01 32.04 32.00 27.00 ation, Communication & Events (TRI-ECE)] Monitoring and Evaluation (MESSA) 1.56 1.39 1.27 2.42 3.83 1.82 3.14 8.84 8.80 20.00 25.00 Improving Development Programmes in the Tr

1.34 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 ibal Areas Administrative Cost to States/ UTs. 4.00 8.41 25.00 59.01 Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha A 109.9 160.0 312.0 bhiyan (PM-JANMAN) 7 0 0 Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utakarsh Abhi 500.0 2000.

yan (DAJGUA) 0 00

4472.6 4794.5 5285. 5954. 7225. 7473. 10171 14861 Sub- Total (Schemes) 7288.74 5461.67 6125.50 0 0 67 78 29 32 .55 .96Annexure -2(B) (In crores) Year wise/ State wise expenditure of MoTA schemes F F Y F F Y FY FY 20 FY FY Y Y 20 F 20 F 20 F S 14 201 201 FY 2 FY 2 2 2 14 FY Y FY 14- Y 14- Y FY FY 201 r. -1 4-1 4-1 014-1 FY 2 014- 0 0 States/U -1 20 20 20 15 20 15 20 202 4-15 to N 5 t 5 to 5 to 5 to 2 024-2 15 to 2 2 Ts 5 t 24- 24 24- to 24 to 24 4-2 2023-2 o o 202 202 023-2 5 2023 4 4 o 2 25 -2 25 20 -2 20 -2 5 4 . 20 3-2 3-2 4 -24 - - 02 5 23- 5 23- 5 23 4 4 2 2 3- 24 24 -2 5 5 24 4 Grants in Aid t Develop Scholars PM JA Liveliho o Volun Article 275(1 PMAAG ment of P EMRS TRI hip NMAN od tary Or ) Y VTGs (MPCs ganizati ) ons Andaman 0 0.0 0.0 1 1.09 0.20 0.00 0.00 5.52 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 & Nicobar 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 1.90 0 Andhra Pra 1139150.7 14.9 226.9 441.8 202.5 98.4 0.0 0.0 2 5.00 0.00 47.14 2.49 351.27 0.00 desh .30 7 7 2 61.63 0.00 6 3 0 39.51 0 Arunachal 554. 100.0 100.3 0.0 150 3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 34.59 6.39 750.63 0.00 Pradesh 74 0 15.90 0.00 20.25 19.98 0 20.58 .00 Assam 429. 106.3 42.9 0.0 270 4 80.71 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 17.44 2.84 283.20 97 70.65 0.00 67.16 9 346.46 0 7.04 .00

0.0 0.0 0.0 5 Delhi 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.83 0.17 0.00

0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0 Bihar 117. 5.2 0.0 99.

6 4.43 0.00 0.00 6.39 0.00 0.00 49.74 54 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.19 0.34 0.00 0 0.00 00 Chhattisgar 145.1 110

854. 122.0 7 h 70.00 8.52 0.00 0.00 11.16 2.51 555.5 752.4 1288.24 0.0 0.0 43 2

20.85 0.00 3 2 311.81 0 15.79 0 Dadar & N 46.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 8 4.90 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 agar Haveli 0 0.00 0.00 0.15 0.00 0.00 10.80 1.74 0.00 0 0.00 0 Goa 53.8 4.8 0.0 200 9 5.36 0.00 0.00 0.00 27.17 1 0.00 0.00 1.50 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 4.77 .00 Gujarat 2644240.4 315.7 237.3 27.3 0.0 250 10 1.66 4.37 72.37 0.00 96.95 3.39 948.75 .04 6 28.96 0.00 2 9 571.25 0 43.14 .00 Himachal 106. 22.4 0.0 125 11 5.00 0.00 0.00 21.78 5.78 190.90 Pradesh 50 0.00 0.00 0.56 0.00 21.67 13.53 15.29 0 4.53 .00 Jammu & 178. 0.0 0.0 100 12 9.95 0.00 0.00 2.05 0.49 160.51 Kashmir 02 0.00 0.00 14.57 0.00 24.84 3.74 59.51 0 23.04 .00 Jharkhand 680. 200.0 147.1 26.6 609.9 633.6 51.5 0.0 200 13 0.62 1.50 0.00 76.61 1059.93 86 0 3 21.75 0.00 6 2 5 81.46 0 35.83 .00 Karnataka 1110132.0 10.2 106.1 47.3 0.0 200 14 3.33 63.80 0.00 28.50 5.21 522.65 .48 0 6 20.87 0.00 5 59.96 74.44 0 11.74 .00 Kerala 243. 4.0 0.0 300 15 30.00 2.29 0.00 8.50 0.00 8.53 1.87 71.67 47 5.97 0.00 19.94 10.30 1.22 0 12.60 .00

70.4 0.0 0.0 99.

16 Ladakh 35.40 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.02 1.82 0.00 7 0.00 1.50 0.00 12.60 0.17 10.19 0 0.00 00Madhya Pr 2105303.0 25.9 485.9 14.3 629.9 245.8 91.8 0.0 600 17 0.00 0.00 68.36 1728.91 adesh .64 5 9 8 18.90 0.00 9 4 9 806.75 0 33.21 .00 Maharashtr 1839117.8 12.4 103.5 15.5 286.2 268.4 0.0 0.0 250 18 5.00 0.00 58.34 952.00 a .21 1 7 5 39.75 0.00 1 6 9 314.26 0 6.84 .00 Manipur 468. 19.8 0.0 140 19 25.00 0.00 0.00 18.29 0.00 29.66 6.57 218.62 34 29.97 0.00 70.81 23.26 8.97 0 18.44 .00 Meghalaya 405. 145.7 20.1 240.3 314.4 22.2 0.0 100 20 0.00 0.00 0.00 93.14 270.71 73 8 0.00 25.34 0.00 7 8 3 35.87 0 7.07 .00 Mizoram 450. 127.0 143.1 21.4 0.0 723 21 24.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.49 1.59 294.67 30 0.00 38.07 0.00 6 3 68.47 0 53.92 .14 Nagaland 380. 343.0 20.5 0.0 600 22 62.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.99 0.00 501.39 55 0.00 42.60 0.00 2 6.98 108.01 0 18.75 .00 Odisha 1927323.5 12.6 23.9 171.3 229.2 28.8 939.2 601.8 101.1 0.0 600 23 0.00 1271.46 .07 0 8 2 3 24.79 0.00 1 5 2 4 159.51 0 58.46 .00

0.0 0.0 0.0 24 Puducherry 0.49 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0 Rajasthan 1996372.3 643.1 46.3 0.0 0.0 25 3.33 3.44 97.16 0.00 17.12 4.99 1102.37 .91 6 71.36 0.00 0 85.32 304.72 0 9.63 0 Sikkim 80.8 44.9 0.0 200 26 6.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 4.75 1.17 117.39 0 0.00 11.69 0.00 40.04 8.45 9.18 0 12.15 .00 Tamil Nad 336. 20.6 103.1 20.2 0.0 300 27 25.60 5.20 0.00 21.28 1.89 104.49 u 11 7 9 1.20 0.00 46.14 17.39 32.20 0 7.70 .00

138.0 130

1695152.5 13.2 28 Telangana 2.91 91.89 0.00 30.04 2.08 562.8 134.9 446.80 0.0 0.0 .98 0 4

2.55 0.00 4 2 87.23 0 30.06 0 Tripura 385. 121.4 248.8 41.5 0.0 300 29 81.86 4.57 7.50 0.00 4.09 1.87 174.31 70.11 25 3 7.76 0.00 6 99.47 0 12.63 .00 Uttar Prade 96.0 18.3 0.0 0.0 30 15.00 0.83 0.00 1.00 0.00 4.50 1.40 108.49 0.00 sh 3 3.60 0.00 19.45 9.49 0 2.57 0 Uttrakhand 114. 0.0 0.0 793 31 3.40 0.62 4.78 21.40 0.00 7.06 0.99 62.54 0.00 65 1.80 0.00 29.32 34.75 0 66.26 .86 West Beng 295. 13.9 35.5 0.0 0.0 32 35.00 0.00 0.00 41.40 0.00 62.26 582.73 0.00 al 91 3.29 0.00 0 62.36 17.90 0 10.12 0

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9.77 03 99.9 99.6 1909. 587.5 984.8 175. 6495. 4053. 13641.5 1170.6 3476.8 0.0 0.0 9 8 27 0.00 2 0.00 9 00 44 86 4 9 0 568.28 0 In EMRS office expenses of NESTs is not includedAnnexure-3 Development Action Plan for Scheduled Tribes (DAPST).

Expenditure under DAPST Expenditure under DAPST since 2015-16 made by the obligated Central Ministries / Departments are as follows: (Rs. in Crores.) Actual Expenditure Year MoTA Ministries/Dept. (other than MoTA) Total 2015-16 4472.26 15552.40 20024.66 2016-17 4793.96 16161.44 20955.40 2017-18 5285.67 25044.09 30329.76 2018-19 5954.78 29397.99 35352.77 2019-20 7170.72 38685.68 45856.40 2020-21 5461.67 42622.43 48084.10 2021-22 6125.51 76405.07 82530.58 2022-23 7225.29 83747.47 90972.76 2023-24 7473.32 95979.45 103452.77 2024-25 10145.67 94290.57 104436.24 (P)

29961.17 (P) 2025-26 -- -- (as on 30.7.25)

(P) Provisional Source 1): Budget Estimates (BE) and Revised estimates (RE) for welfare of STs figures are taken from Statement 10B of the Expenditure Profile of the Union Budget

2) Actual expenditure for the FY 2020-21 to 2023-24 is based on Statement 10B of the Expenditure Profile of the corresponding Union Budgets.

3) Provisional expenditure for the FY 2024-25 and 2025-26 (as on 30.7.25) is taken from the STC- MIS portal (https://stcmis.gov.in/). *****