One scheme now covers over 63,000 tribal-majority villages, coordinated across 17 different Ministries at once. This article covers the Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan (DAJGUA): its objective, its scale, and how its funds are tracked.
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DAJGUA
Saturation-mode development for tribal-majority villages
2 Oct 2024
DAJGUA launches, subsuming the earlier Pradhan Mantri Adi Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAAGY).
2024-25
First-year fund releases begin. Odisha leads with ₹174.22 crore released.
2025-26
Releases continue. Maharashtra leads this year, with ₹165.92 crore released.
5 Aug 2026
Government discloses state-wise fund-release figures in a Rajya Sabha reply.
Saturation, not scheme-by-scheme
DAJGUA converges 17 Ministries in one village at once, rather than delivering separate benefits through separate, disconnected schemes.
Must Know
- The Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan (DAJGUA) was launched by the Prime Minister on 2 October 2024. It subsumes the earlier Pradhan Mantri Adi Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAAGY).
- Its objective is holistic, saturation-mode development of tribal-majority villages and habitations across the country.
- It works through the convergence of 17 Ministries and Departments, delivering 25 interventions together in each covered village. This replaces the older pattern of one benefit at a time.
- DAJGUA covers over 63,000 villages nationally, making it one of the largest tribal-development efforts by scale.
- The Ministry of Tribal Affairs is the nodal ministry, coordinating implementation and reviewing progress with the other converging ministries.
Good to Know
- DAJGUA sits alongside PM-JANMAN, a separate, narrower saturation scheme covering only Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) through 9 converging ministries. DAJGUA is broader, covering all tribal-majority villages through 17 ministries.
- Funds for DAJGUA are tracked under the Development Action Plan for Scheduled Tribes (DAPST) framework. They are recorded under a dedicated minor accounting head, ‘796’, specifically to prevent diversion to unrelated spending.
- An online system, STCMIS (stcmis.gov.in), monitors DAPST funds. It pulls expenditure data directly from the government’s own Public Finance Management System (PFMS).
- The Ministry of Tribal Affairs holds regular review meetings with converging ministries, to track both financial and physical progress and resolve implementation issues.
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Great to Know
- “Saturation mode” marks a real shift in tribal-welfare design. Older schemes delivered one benefit at a time, through one ministry. DAJGUA instead tries to bring every basic service to a village at once, by forcing 17 ministries to coordinate around the same geography.
- Folding PMAAGY into DAJGUA follows a familiar pattern in Indian scheme design. An older, narrower area-development scheme gets consolidated into one larger, convergence-based umbrella, instead of running both in parallel.
- The DAPST accounting safeguard exists for a specific reason. Earmarked tribal-welfare funds, sitting inside a much larger ministry budget, can otherwise get quietly redirected to unrelated general spending. A dedicated minor head makes that diversion harder to do unnoticed.
Current Affairs
- On 5 August 2026, MoS Tribal Affairs Durgadas Uikey gave a written Rajya Sabha reply on DAJGUA. It included state-wise fund-release figures for 2024-25 and 2025-26. Among larger recipients: Odisha received ₹174.22 crore in 2024-25, Maharashtra received ₹165.92 crore in 2025-26, and Assam received ₹135.18 crore in 2024-25. (Source: PIB)
- The same reply situated DAJGUA within a wider set of Ministry of Tribal Affairs schemes, including EMRS, PM-JANMAN, and the Pradhan Mantri Janjatiya Vikas Mission. Each covers a different slice of tribal welfare.
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