BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha government is planning to take another loan of Rs 734.86 crore from International Fund for Agriculture Development to implement the second phase of Odisha PVTG Empowerment and Livelihood Improvement Programme. Aimed at supporting these vulnerable tribal communities, the government has decided to scale up the OPELIP model in the newly-identified 1,138 PVTG villages. While the project implementation …
As Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday announced to launch the Pradhan Mantri PVTG Development Mission in order to saturate the PVTG families and habitations with basic facilities, Odisha being home to the highest number of PVTG communities in the country, is likely to be benefited the most. Union Finance Minister, in her Budget speech, said an amount of …
