Thane, 28 Sep (HS):- About 63,000 tribal villages in

the country, including 4,975 in Maharashtra will be developed under the Pradhan

Mantri Janjatiya Unnat Gram Abhiyan of the Government of India. Following

clearance of the mission by the union cabinet the work on the programme is

expected to begin soon.

Finance

Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the scheme during the budget session,

which was cleared during a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra

Modi. Twenty-five different programmes will be implemented under the project,

including developing basic infrastructure, health, education, removing gap in

earning livelihood etc.

In

the 32 districts of Maharashtra, 12,87,702 tribals will be benefited under the

project. The concerned ministries have been directed to plan for phase-wise

implementation of the programme. The details of the villages, implementation of

programmes, development achieved etc will be uploaded on the portal and

evaluated by the authorities assigned.

The

projects include cement concrete houses, road connectivity, tap water at every

house, electric supply, mobile health units, Ayushyaman Card, LPG connection,

multipurpose marketing centres, facilities at Ashramshalas, centres for sickle

cell and anaemia etc.

The

number of villages in various districts in Maharashtra are – Thane – 146,

Palghar – 654, Raigad -113, Ratnagiri – 1, Ahmednagar – 118, Akola – 43,

Amravati – 321, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar – 11, Bid – 2, Bhandara – 14, Buldana

– 43, Chandrapur – 167, Dhule – 213, Gadchiroli – 411, Gondia – 104, Hingoli – 81,

Jalgaon – 112, Jalna – 25, Kolhapur -1, Latur – 2, Nagpur – 58, nanded – 169,

Nandurbar – 717, Nashik – 767, Osmanabad – 4, Parbhani – 5, Pune – 99, Satara –

4, Solapur – 61, Wardha – 72, Washim – 71, Yavatmal – 366,.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Ajay Vasant Mardikar