Kicking off the Information, Education and Communication campaign for the PM-JANMAN package for the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) on December 25, 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.
The Tribal Affairs Ministry said on December 25 that the campaign would cover 100 districts of 18 States and the UT of Andaman and Nicobar Islands; in the next phase, habitations in other parts of the country would be covered.
In the absence of any current data on PVTG populations, the government has estimated that there are over 22,000 such habitations and villages across these States and UTs, where around 28 lakh people live — all of whom it aims to cover under the PM-JANMAN package.
