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Scheme For Economic Empowerment Of Denotified, Nomadic, Semi-nomadic (SEED) Tribes.

Scheme For Economic Empowerment Of Denotified, Nomadic, Semi-nomadic (SEED) Tribes:

The Union Social Justice Ministry received 402 applications online from across the country for benefits under the Scheme for Economic Empowerment of Denotified, Nomadic, Semi-nomadic (SEED) Tribes.

  • More than 10 crore Indians from 1,400 communities belong to these groups, show the latest estimates available with the government.
  • The scheme aims to provide free competitive exam coaching to students, health insurance and financial assistance for housing and uplift clusters of these communities through livelihood initiatives.
  • The Ministry has been allocated ₹200 crore for this scheme to be spent over five financial years from 2021-22 to 2025-26.
  • At the time of the launch, the Ministry announced that the scheme would be implemented through an online portal that would issue a unique ID to each applicant to apply and track the status of the application online.