Govt. targets documents’ saturation in PVTG villages in one week

• The Union government has set a target of one week to achieve Aadhaar, caste certificate, and Jan Dhan account saturation across 15,000 PVTG habitations in 100 districts.

Key Highlights

• The package brings together 11 key interventions already being implemented by nine Ministries
• It was pointed out that several PVTG families in these areas do not have any basic form of documentation.
• The campaign also intends to produce awareness material like pamphlets, videos, wall paintings, jingles.
• These efforts will be supervised by district-level officers, who have been assigned one district each.
• The State-level officers will coordinate with the respective line departments of their State governments to ensure the project’s implementation.

Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs)

• In India, tribal population makes up for 8.6% of the total population.
• PVTGs are more vulnerable among the tribal groups.
• Due to this factor, more developed and assertive tribal groups take a major chunk of the tribal development funds
  • Because PVTGs need more funds directed for their development.
• In 1973, the Dhebar Commission created Primitive Tribal Groups (PTGs) as a separate category, which are less developed among the tribal groups.
• In 2006, the Government of India renamed the PTGs as PVTGs.
• In this context, in 1975, the Government of India initiated to identify the most vulnerable tribal groups as a separate category called PVTGs
• In 1993 a total of 75 PVTGs out of 705 Scheduled Tribes were identified.
• PVTGs have some basic characteristics
  • They are mostly homogenous, with a small population]
  • Relatively physically isolated
  • Absence of written language
  • Relatively simple technology and a slower rate of change etc.
• Among the 75 listed PVTG’s the highest number are found in Odisha.

Prelims Takeaway

• Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs)
• Jan Dhan account