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Daltonganj August 13: Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) too nurses big dreams. Palamu administration’s new launch of Unnat Doorasth Adivasi Yojna (UDAY) gives impetus to the PVTG’s aspiration.
PVTG does not live in cities or even in suburban areas. It prefers jungles where it feels the comfort of being in tune with Nature.
Palamu’s UDAY aims at emboldening it with papers and documents so far either not made available or denied to it.
PVTG’s Bold Demand for Stone Mining
PVTG of the panchayat samiti of Nawadih under Ramgarh block in Palamu is keen to shed off its primitiveness and wants ‘land on lease for mining stone’.
It’s a great jump from lying in suffering distress and in low-key to becoming a startup.
The PVTG is generally seen as submissive and resigned to the fate of suffering. Now, it wants its say in as big an enterprise as stone mining.
However, at Nawadih, the PVTG wants land lease for stone quarrying, a venture no one had ever thought of coming from the members of the PVTG.
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Officials Taken Aback by Unprecedented Request
On Monday, August 11, DC Sameera S, DDC Md Jawed Hussain, Additional Collector Kundan Kumar and a host of other officers had reached Uldanda and Nawadih to launch a pilot project nick-named Unnat Doorasth Adivasi Yojna (UDAY) where a lady member of the panchayat samiti of Nawadih, a PVTG woman, asked for the lease of land for quarrying stone!
Additional Collector Kundan Kumar told this correspondent on Tuesday August 12, “The demand for stone mining lease coming from a panchayat samiti lady member belonging to the PVTG surprised us very much. It was a big shot for us.”
“It made us feel the PVTG known for its own self-seclusion and isolation of the mainstay of life are wanting a pie in the hottest business of the time, stone mining and crushing plant”, reiterated the officer.
The PVTG lady had even hinted at a chunk of land for stone quarrying near a mission school.
However, there is a determined resistance to leasing of land as demanded by the PVTG, near a mission school there citing hazards to the school environment.
The demand for stone quarrying lease of land matches the theme of UDAY.
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Document Drives and Banking Interest
The PVTG Nawadih is far more assertive than its counterpart of the Uldanda panchayat.
The Uldanda panchayat PVTG is content with ‘the little’ it has, said one government functionary.
DDC M Jawed Hussain, explaining the theme of UDAY said, “DC Sameera S has taken this initiative to saturate the PVTG with certificates and documents to enable them to stand up for any governmental schemes or benefits.”
PVTG people are showing interest in banking as 97 people of this group of Nawadih asked for their bank accounts, while 29 only in Uldanda during the launching day of UDAY.
No van patta was delivered at Uldanda panchayat while it was three at Nawadih panchayat, read one official figure.
Birth certificates were in demand by the PVTG families. 45 birth certificates were delivered at Uldanda panchayat, while 58 in Nawadih panchayat.
Under orders of the DC, birth certificate, caste certificate, income certificate, residential certificate, Ayushman card, individual Van Patta, Aadhar card, ration card, MGNREGA job card etc were issued to people.
UDAY is an offshoot of the PM Jan Jatiya Nayaya Maha Abhiyan.
There are 31 hamlets of PVTG in Ramgarh block with a total population of 1300 and above.
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Questions Over Long-Term Impact
Is UDAY a lip service or just a cosmetic approach to the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG)? asked some senior officials in the state.
These queries of the senior state officials are of those who had had their stint here in Palamu district as its DCs in the past few decades.
These senior state officials opined that skills and jobs for the PVTG should be made available right at the place where they dwell.
