MPPSC 2023 Prelims Paper-I · Question 14 of 100

Correct — B, supplying low-cost equipment and working capital for new industries/business to BPL category beneficiaries of Scheduled Tribes. The Tantya Mama (Tantya Bhil) Aarthik Kalyan Yojana is one of Madhya Pradesh's tribal self-employment schemes: it gives Below-Poverty-Line Scheduled Tribe youth subsidised equipment plus working capital to set up small trades or micro-businesses, named after the Bhil tribal freedom fighter Tantya Bhil, popularly called 'Tantya Mama'.

• (a)Providing free education to Tribal women — Tribal women's education is the domain of separate education/hostel schemes, not this economic self-employment scheme.
• (c)Funding infrastructure development in Tribal regions — Infrastructure in tribal areas is funded through different area-development schemes, not this individual-beneficiary livelihood scheme.
• (d)Promoting sports among Tribal youth — Tribal sports promotion falls under separate sports/youth-welfare schemes, unrelated to this economic welfare programme.

Madhya Pradesh runs several self-employment/livelihood schemes for its Scheduled Tribe population, providing subsidised equipment and working-capital loans so BPL tribal youth can start small trades or micro-enterprises rather than relying only on wage labour. The Tantya Mama scheme is one such programme, alongside others such as the Bhagwan Birsa Munda Self-Employment Scheme, which MPPSC has also tested by name.

The other three options describe genuine but DIFFERENT categories of tribal-welfare intervention (education, infrastructure, sports) — the trap is picking a plausible-sounding tribal-welfare purpose instead of this scheme's actual, narrower economic/livelihood objective.

• Tantya Mama (Tantya Bhil) Aarthik Kalyan Yojana — an MP tribal self-employment/livelihood scheme
• Targets BPL category beneficiaries from Scheduled Tribes
• Provides low-cost equipment plus working capital for starting a business/industry
• Named after Tantya Bhil ('Tantya Mama'), a Bhil tribal freedom fighter

• Confusing this economic/livelihood scheme with tribal education or infrastructure schemes
• Mixing up Tantya Bhil the historical figure with the specific objective/target group of the scheme named after him

MPPSC often names a scheme after a local/tribal hero and asks for its precise objective or target group — expect objective-matching questions like this one.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Tantya Bhil, after whom Madhya Pradesh's tribal self-employment scheme is named, belonged to which tribal community?

  • (a)Gond
  • (b)Bhil
  • (c)Baiga
  • (d)Korku

  Answer(b) Bhil — Tantya Bhil (Tantya Mama) was a Bhil tribal leader and freedom fighter.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Alongside the Tantya Mama scheme, which other Madhya Pradesh scheme also provides self-employment support to Scheduled Tribe youth?

  • (a)Bhagwan Birsa Munda Self-Employment Scheme
  • (b)Ladli Laxmi Yojana
  • (c)Sambal Yojana
  • (d)Mukhyamantri Kanya Vivah Yojana

  Answer(a) Bhagwan Birsa Munda Self-Employment Scheme — another MP tribal self-employment scheme, alongside the Tantya Mama scheme.