Lok Sabha Question No. 3304 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2026-03-12
Subject: Hostels for Boys and Girls of Scheduled Tribes
Ministry: TRIBAL AFFAIRS
Asked by: Shri Balwant Baswant Wankhade

## Hostels for Boys and Girls of Scheduled Tribes

3304. Shri Balwant Baswant Wankhade:

Will the Minister of TRIBAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government is providing financial assistance under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Hostels for Scheduled Tribe Boys and Girls and if so, the details thereof;
- (b)  the total amount granted by the Government and the amount spent by various States there under during the last three years;
- (c) whether the Government has constituted any monitoring committee for supervision and evaluation of the said Scheme; and
- (d)  if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR TRIBAL AFFAIRS (SHRI DURGADAS UIKEY)

- (a):    The Ministry of Tribal Affairs' (MoTA) is providing 100% financial assistance under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan (DAJGUA)  launched by the Hon'ble PM  on October 2, 2024 in 63,843 villages across 30 States/UTs  to  help  facilitate  access  to  education  to  the  tribal  students.  DA-JGUA  also  has provision of setting up 1000 tribal hostels by the Department of Social Education & literacy (DoSEL) in schools which may or may not be necessarily tribal schools. Such hostels will be attached to any Government schools and funded as per the norms of Samgra  Shiksha Abhiyan.
- (b):     Total amount approved by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and the amount released to various  States/  UT  under  DAJGUA during inception  of scheme i.e  from  2024  is  tabulated below:-

State wise fund approved and released to States/ UT for construction of hostels under DAJGUA by Ministry of Tribal Affairs is given below: - (From launch of scheme i.e 2024-25)

|   S. No. | State             |   PAC Approved amount (In Lakhs) |   Fund Released (In Lakhs) |
|----------|-------------------|----------------------------------|----------------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh    |                          7539.13 |                    1692.33 |
|        2 | Arunachal Pradesh |                           275    |                     197.04 |
|        3 | Assam             |                         12568    |                    5858.8  |
|        4 | Chhatisgarh       |                         51150    |                       0    |
|        5 | Gujarat           |                         10388    |                    4714.2  |
|        6 | Himachal Pradesh  |                          1100    |                     440    |

|   7 | J&K            | 116.68   |   116.68 |
|-----|----------------|----------|----------|
|   8 | Jharkhand      | 11825    |  3760    |
|   9 | Kerala         | 550      |    46.86 |
|  10 | Madhya Pradesh | 44751.06 |  9543.73 |
|  11 | Maharashtra    | 52795.10 | 19775.3  |
|  12 | Odisha         | 22680    | 14665.8  |
|  13 | Rajasthan      | 13691.77 |  4946.44 |
|  14 | Sikkim         | 1,925.00 |   410.7  |
|  15 | Tamil Nadu     | 2721.06  |  1198.18 |
|  16 | Tripura        | 7270     |   463.65 |

(c):  No Sir.

- (d):   In view of (c), does not arise.

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