CDS (II) 2024 General Knowledge · Question 113 of 120

Correct — C, It is a scheme of the Government of India for benefitting every member of the tribal community from Government schemes. PM-JANMAN stands for Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan, launched on 15 November 2023 at Khunti in Jharkhand, the day observed as Janjatiya Gaurav Divas. It is a saturation mission run by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs together with several line ministries, with a total outlay of about ₹24,104 crore across 2023-24 to 2025-26, and it works by taking eleven critical interventions — pucca housing, connecting roads, piped drinking water, electrification, mobile connectivity, health centres, hostels, anganwadis, multipurpose centres, vocational skilling and sustainable livelihoods — into habitations that existing schemes had not reached. Its target group is the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups, 75 communities spread across 18 States and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, so the option's language of covering the community from government schemes is a loose description of a saturation approach rather than a claim about every tribal household in India.

• (a)It is a scheme of the Government of India to impart electoral literacy to voters. — Electoral literacy runs through the Election Commission's Systematic Voters' Education and Electoral Participation programme, which is a quite different initiative.
• (b)It is a scheme of the Government of India for deepening of democracy in the functioning of Panchayati Raj institutions. — Panchayat strengthening runs through the Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan under the Ministry of Panchayati Raj.
• (d)It is a scheme of the Government of India for benefitting migrants workers in the unorganized sector. — Support for unorganised and migrant workers runs through the e-Shram database and schemes such as One Nation One Ration Card, not through PM-JANMAN, which sits with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups are a sub-category within the Scheduled Tribes, identified by criteria such as a pre-agricultural level of technology, a stagnant or declining population, very low literacy and a subsistence economy. Seventy-five such groups are recognised across 18 States and one Union Territory. PM-JANMAN is the mission built specifically for them, working on a saturation model in which a defined package of basic services is taken to every identified habitation rather than to applicants who come forward.

Acronym-and-scheme questions are answered by locating the ministry first. Three of the four options belong to the Election Commission, the Panchayati Raj ministry and the labour ministry respectively, and only one is a tribal welfare description. The word Janjati inside the scheme's own name points the same way. The imprecision in the winning option is worth noticing rather than ignoring: the mission is for the most vulnerable tribal groups specifically, and a later programme, the Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan announced in 2024, extends the saturation idea to tribal-majority villages more broadly. Worth flagging: UPSC has not released a key for this paper, and some answer keys in circulation mark (d), migrant workers. The scheme sits with the tribal affairs ministry and is built for tribal habitations, so this card takes (c).

• PM-JANMAN = Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan, launched 15 November 2023 at Khunti, Jharkhand.
• Total outlay about ₹24,104 crore for 2023-24 to 2025-26, with a central share of about ₹15,336 crore.
• It targets 75 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups across 18 States and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
• Eleven critical interventions are delivered through nine ministries, on a saturation basis rather than by application.
• 15 November is observed as Janjatiya Gaurav Divas, the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda.

• Reading the scheme as covering all Scheduled Tribes rather than the most vulnerable groups within them.
• Confusing it with the later Dharti Aaba tribal village programme.
• Attributing it to the rural development ministry rather than to tribal affairs.

As a which-statement-describes-the-scheme item, or as a scheme-to-ministry match with two or three tribal schemes together.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  PM-JANMAN is implemented by which ministry?

  • (a)Ministry of Rural Development
  • (b)Ministry of Tribal Affairs
  • (c)Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
  • (d)Ministry of Panchayati Raj

  Answer(b) Ministry of Tribal Affairs — working with several line ministries to deliver eleven interventions to vulnerable tribal habitations.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Janjatiya Gaurav Divas, on which PM-JANMAN was launched, is observed on

  • (a)9 August
  • (b)2 October
  • (c)15 November
  • (d)26 December

  Answer(c) 15 November — the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda, observed as Janjatiya Gaurav Divas since 2021.