Tech for Tribal

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  • March 21, 2020
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Tech for Tribal

Part of: GS Prelims and GS-II-Governance

  • It is an initiative of TRIFED supported by Ministry of MSME
  • The project aims at capacity building and imparting entrepreneurship skills to tribal forest produce gatherers enrolled under the Pradhan Mantri VanDhan Yojana(PMVDY). 
  • The trainees will undergo a 30 days program over six weeks comprising 120 sessions.
  • Partnering Institutions: IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Roorkee, IIM Indore, Kalinga Institute of Social Science, Bhubaneshwar and SRIJAN, Jaipur

Prelims Value Addition

About Pradhan Mantri VanDhan Yojana(PMVDY). 

  • It is an initiative of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and TRIFED, launched in 2018, to improve tribal incomes through the value addition of tribal products.
  • It is a Market Linked Tribal Entrepreneurship Development Program for forming clusters of tribal Self-Help-Groups (SHGs) and strengthening them into Tribal Producer Companies
  • It aims to set-up tribal community owned Minor Forest Produce (MFP)-centric multi-purpose Van Dhan Vikas Kendras.
  • The Kendras would act as common facility centres for procurement cum value addition to locally available MFPs
  • One typical Van Dhan Vikas Kendra comprises of 15 Self Help Groups, each consisting of 20 Tribal gatherers. 
  • These SHGs will get training on sustainable harvesting/collection, primary processing & value addition and also provided with working capital to conduct their business.

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