TRIFED will partner with NITI Aayog to implement the Van Dhan Yojana in the districts identified as Aspirants.
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TRIFED will now be partnering with NITI Aayog to implement the Van Dhan Yojana in the districts that have been identified as aspirational by NITI Aayog. It has been decided that a dedicated team from TRIFED along with the NITI Aayog team will work out the follow-up-plan for the implementation of the Van Dhan Yojana in each of the 39 Tribal Aspirational Districts. The decision was taken based on the recent discussions between Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog and Pravir Krishna, Managing Director, TRIFED. These identified districts are in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Telangana and Tripura. A special focus will be on these aspirational districts where tribal population constitutes more than 50 percent. Under the expansion plan of tribal development program, an additional 9900 Van Dhan Vikas Kendras subsumed into 659 VDVK Clusters spread out in these tribal aspirational districts are envisaged. This is expected to give a boost to the employment generation to nearly 2 lakh tribal families.
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