Employment Opportunities
- Creation of more employment through productivity enhancement in agricultural sector
- Increase in animal husbandry and dairy-based activities
- Quality skill training for tribal youth
- Development of modern, scientific and technical facilities and linking the tribal youth to them for increased livelihood opportunities
- Preference to women-headed households
Quality of Education & Higher Education
- Higher secondary schools for science in each taluka
- Provision for enrolling 1000 students in nationally recognized residential schools and creating a talent pool for tribals
- Navodaya or Eklavya type residential school in each tribal taluka and making them comparable with quality urban schools
- Establishment of 100 additional hostels for college students
- Establishment of Arts, Science and Commerce colleges to cover remote and left out talukas
- Establishment of excellent academic units including engineering and medical colleges, polytechnics, nursing colleges and ITI colleges
Economic Development
- Annual allocation of Rs. 1 crore per taluka for development of identified economic activities through a cluster-based approach and market linkages
- Linking remote tribal areas to nearby economic centres through development of basic infrastructure and facilities such as roads, water supply, irrigation and continuous power supply in all tribal areas
- Value addition to local natural resources for higher returns to tribal families
Health
- Benefits of Chiranjeevi Yojana to all ST families
- Annual health check-up programmes for all ST families
- Financial assistance to BPL families in case of heart surgery
- Special drive for tackling endemic diseases such as sickle cell anaemia, leptospirosis, etc.
Housing
- Housing for all ST families within the next five years
Safe Drinking Water
- All ST families to get safe, assured and adequate drinking water within the next five years
- At least 25% of the ST population to get access to piped water supply
Irrigation
- Emphasis on group irrigation schemes
- Creation of water conservation structures on watershed basis
- Creation of more checkdams in tribal areas
- Subsidy to BPL families for individual facilities such as oil engines, etc.
- Financial and technical assistance for promoting drip irrigation
Universal Electrification
- Electrification to all hitherto uncovered hamlets
- Alternative arrangements through solar energy for remote and dispersed hamlets
- Free electrification to all BPL families
All-Weather Road Connectivity
- All hamlets with population of less than 250 to be connected by roads
- Special drive for repairing existing roads in tribal areas
Urban Development
- Development of 13 tribal towns to act as growth engines
- All tribal talukas to get broadband connectivity within next five years