Lok Sabha Question No. 41 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2026-01-29
Subject: Implementation of PM-JUGA
Ministry: TRIBAL AFFAIRS
Asked by: Shri Sanjay Uttamrao Deshmukh, Shri Bajrang Manohar Sonwane

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF TRIBAL AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.41

TO BE ANSWERED ON 29.01.2026

## IMPLEMENTATION OF PM-JUGA

## 41.  SHRI SANJAY UTTAMRAO DESHMUKH: SHRI BAJRANG MANOHAR SONWANE:

Will the Minister of TRIBAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

(a) the details and the number of villages selected under the Pradhan Mantri Janjatiya Unnat Gram Abhiyan (PM-JUGA) across the country particularly in the State of Maharashtra and the criteria adopted for such selection along with the present status of implementation of the scheme;

(b)  the  details  of  proposals  received,  approved  and  implemented  under  the  said  scheme, component-wise across the country along with the district-wise details of Maharashtra thereof particularly from Washim-Yavatmal Lok Sabha Constituency;

(c) the details of the total funds allocated, sanctioned and utilised under the said scheme since its launch, year-wise and State-wise;

- (d) the criteria fixed for the allocation of funds under the said scheme; and

(e)  the  number  of Scheduled  Tribe  (ST) families  and  individuals  benefited  from  the  said scheme so far, State-wise and district-wise in Maharashtra?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR TRIBAL AFFAIRS (SHRI DURGA DAS UIKEY)

(a) & (b) Under Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan (DAJGUA), 63,843 villages, in  549  districts  and  2,911  blocks  in  30  States/UTs  have  been  identified.  The  state  of Maharashtra has 4,975 villages selected under the said abhiyan.

The 'Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan (DAJGUA)' aims for the holistic development  of  tribal  communities  and  villages,  focusing  on  those  in  Aspirational  blocks with  ST  populations  of  50  or  more,  and  villages  with  at  least  500  people  and  50%  ST population covering around 63,843 villages.

The details of proposals approved and implemented under the Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan (DAJGUA), district-wise, component-wise, in Maharashtra including Washim-Yavatmal Lok Sabha Constituency is as under:-

|   S. No. | Intervention                                                        | Districts Covered (UnitS)                                                                                                                                                      |
|----------|---------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Construction of Additional Classrooms in Ashram/Tribal area Schools | Hingoli (11), Palghar (16), Raigad (12), Ratnagiri (6), Yavatmal (8)                                                                                                           |
|        2 | Construction of Toilet complex in Ashram/Tribal area Schools        | Amravati (2) Chandrapur (1) Gondia(2) Hingoli (8) Nanded (8) Nashik (2) Pune (4) Raigad (2) Ratnagiri (1) Thane (1)                                                            |
|        3 | Construction of Staff Quarter                                       | Chandrapur (6), Gondia (1), Nagpur (1), Ratnagiri (1)                                                                                                                          |
|        4 | Construction of Boy's Hostels in Tribal area Schools                | Nashik (7), Nandurbar (4), Ahilyangar(2), Palghar (11), Amravati (8), Solapur (1), Nanded (3), Raigad (1), Chandrapur (4), Gadchiroli (10), Jalgaon (4) Pune (2), Yavatmal (4) |
|        5 | Major Repairs & Renovation works                                    | Raigad (3), Ratnagiri (1)                                                                                                                                                      |
|        6 | Tribal Multi-Purpose Marketing centre                               | Gondia (1), Gadchiroli (1), Dhule (1) Yavatmal (1) Nashik (2)                                                                                                                  |

- (c) Hon'ble Prime  Minister launched Dharti Aaba  Janjatiya  Gram  Utkarsh  Abhiyan (DAJGUA) on 2nd October, 2024. The details of the total funds allocated/ sanctioned and released under the said scheme, year-wise and State-wise is given below:-

(Rs. In lakh)

|   S.No. | Name of the State/UTs   |   Total Approved Amount by PAC | Fund Released during 2024-25 through SNA Model   | Fund Released during 2025-26 through SNA Model   |   Mother Sanction Generated on PFMS through SNA Sparsh Model |   Expenditure Amount by State/ UT under SNA Sparsh |
|---------|-------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------|
|       1 | Andhra Pradesh          |                          17332 | -                                                | 2057                                             |                                                         4115 |                                               8.45 |
|       2 | Arunachal Pradesh       |                           3001 | -                                                | 749                                              |                                                         1499 |                                               0    |
|       3 | Assam                   |                          31598 | 13519                                            | -                                                |                                                         1186 |                                               0.16 |
|       4 | Bihar                   |                            682 | -                                                | 509                                              |                                                          682 |                                               0    |
|       5 | Chhattisgarh            |                          77724 | 3654                                             | -                                                |                                                         1866 |                                               0.09 |

|   6 | Goa              |   3254 | -     | -    | -     |   0.00 |
|-----|------------------|--------|-------|------|-------|--------|
|   7 | Gujarat          |  17585 | -     | -    | 8792  |   0    |
|   8 | Himachal Pradesh |   2867 | 1368  | -    | 4760  |   0    |
|   9 | Jammu& Kashmir   |   4036 | -     | -    | 3921  |  47.56 |
|  10 | Jharkhand        |  26332 | -     | 8894 | 8894  |   0    |
|  11 | Karnataka        |  14516 | -     | -    | 2877  |   0    |
|  12 | Kerala           |   2235 | 389   | -    | 726   |   0    |
|  13 | Madhya Pradesh   |  51143 | 9136  | -    | 6798  |  57.21 |
|  14 | Maharashtra      |  58190 | -     | 8955 | 13432 | 343.88 |
|  15 | Manipur          |   3290 | -     | 813  | 935   |   0    |
|  16 | Nagaland         |   5228 | 678   | -    | 483   |   0    |
|  17 | Odisha           |  39686 | 17422 | -    | -     | 351.9  |
|  18 | Rajasthan        |  31603 | -     | -    | 8374  |   0    |
|  19 | Sikkim           |   3635 | -     | 1169 | -     |   0.09 |
|  20 | Tamil Nadu       |   4141 | 1987  | -    | 230   |   0    |
|  21 | Telangana        |   8639 | -     | -    | 4319  |   0    |
|  22 | Tripura          |   8169 | -     | 913  | -     |   0    |
|  23 | Uttar Pradesh    |    887 | -     | -    | 443   |   0    |
|  24 | Uttarakhand      |    292 | -     | -    | 146   |   0    |
|  25 | West Bengal      |    442 | -     | -    | 15    |   0    |
|  26 | Ladakh           |    100 | -     | -    | -     |   0    |

(d) Under the DAJGUA scheme, the share of funds allocation to the States/UTs has been determined depending upon the concentration of tribal populations, villages and area in the States/ UTs.

(e) State-  wise  distribution  of  blocks  and  villages  including  ST  population  under DAJGUA is as follows:

|   S. No. | State             |   No. of District |   No. of Block |   No. of Village |   ST HHs |   Total Population |   ST Population |
|----------|-------------------|-------------------|----------------|------------------|----------|--------------------|-----------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh    |                18 |            107 |              878 |   157638 |            1113652 |          655450 |
|        2 | Arunachal Pradesh |                23 |             84 |              329 |    40925 |             272750 |          230896 |
|        3 | Assam             |                32 |            147 |             3161 |   398999 |            2779667 |         2124774 |
|        4 | Bihar             |                24 |             74 |              771 |    75070 |            1783928 |          407136 |

| S. No.             |   State | No. of District   | No. of Block   | No. of Village   | ST HHs   | Total Population   |   ST Population |
|--------------------|---------|-------------------|----------------|------------------|----------|--------------------|-----------------|
| Chhattisgarh       |      32 | 138               | 6691           | 1103404          | 6967289  | 4909442            |               5 |
| 6 Goa              |       2 | 9                 |                | 25               | 7227     | 47144              |           34105 |
| 7 Gujarat          |      21 |                   | 102            | 4265             | 1228970  | 7675215            |         6605912 |
| 8 Himachal Pradesh |      10 | 26                |                | 270              | 24423    | 170351             |          117040 |
| 9 JammuAnd Kashmir |      20 | 112               | 393            | 91072            |          | 792087             |          502935 |
| 10 Jharkhand       |      24 | 231               |                | 7139             | 967113   | 7044011            |         4976859 |
| 11 Karnataka       |      28 | 129               |                | 1089             | 155318   | 1975186            |          805566 |
| 12 Kerala          |       4 | 9                 |                | 89               | 53032    | 1322280            |          219524 |
| 13 Ladakh          |       2 | 30                |                | 143              | 23816    | 163981             |          155238 |
| 14 Lakshadweep     |       1 | 2                 |                | 2                | 1733     | 9868               |            9322 |
| Madhya Pradesh     |      51 | 267               |                | 11377            | 1858795  | 13186399 9323125   |              15 |
| 16 Maharashtra     |      32 | 214               |                | 4975             | 937393   | 6347798            |         4694682 |
| 17 Manipur         |      13 | 57                |                | 516              | 110530   | 666137             |          629332 |
| 18 Meghalaya       |      12 | 53                |                | 1437             | 199324   | 1183736            |         1135901 |
| Mizoram            |      11 | 26                | 383            |                  | 80148    | 414444 400652      |              19 |
| 20 Nagaland        |      16 | 74                |                | 608              | 176419   | 956721             |          915742 |
| 21 Odisha          |      27 | 234               |                | 7667             | 1085661  | 7042261            |         4815670 |
| 22 Rajasthan       |      30 | 208               |                | 6019             | 1076190  | 7655043            |         5537444 |
| 23 Sikkim          |       6 | 26                |                | 119              | 14901    | 123635             |           72682 |
| 24 Tamil Nadu      |      16 | 36                |                | 248              | 74079    | 489153             |          303711 |
| 25 Telangana       |      30 |                   | 230            | 924              | 271029   | 1691305            |         1150538 |
| 26 D&NHAnd D&D     |       2 | 2                 |                | 76               | 28152    | 203454             |          147290 |
| 27 Tripura         |       8 | 52                |                | 392              | 181487   | 988452             |          828393 |
| 28 Uttar Pradesh   |      26 |                   | 47             | 517              | 51116    | 1183202            |          311488 |

| S. No.      | State       |   No. of District |   No. of Block |   No. of Village |   ST HHs |   Total Population |   ST Population |
|-------------|-------------|-------------------|----------------|------------------|----------|--------------------|-----------------|
| 29          | Uttarakhand |                 7 |             15 |              128 |    15581 |             209384 |           88723 |
| 30          | West Bengal |                21 |            170 |             3212 |   364673 |            3974631 |         1707342 |
| Grand Total | Grand Total |               549 |           2911 |            63843 | 10854218 |           78433164 |        53816914 |

The distribution of blocks and villages including ST population under DAJGUA in the state of Maharashtra is as follows:

|   S.No. | Name of District   |   No. of Blocks |   No. of Villages | No. of Households (2011)   | Total Population   | Total ST Households   | Total ST Population   |
|---------|--------------------|-----------------|-------------------|----------------------------|--------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|       1 | Ahmednagar         |               4 |               118 | 28,218                     | 144,501            | 22,993                | 117,593               |
|       2 | Akola              |               7 |                43 | 8,920                      | 40,272             | 6,790                 | 30,896                |
|       3 | Amravati           |               9 |               321 | 58,758                     | 300,494            | 47,112                | 243,744               |
|       4 | Aurangabad         |               4 |                11 | 3,498                      | 16,816             | 2,123                 | 10,365                |
|       5 | Beed               |               1 |                 2 | 1,408                      | 6,629              | 58                    | 280                   |
|       6 | Bhandara           |               6 |                14 | 2,616                      | 12,025             | 1,668                 | 7,695                 |
|       7 | Buldhana           |               8 |                43 | 10,477                     | 54,817             | 8,661                 | 46,073                |
|       8 | Chandrapur         |              15 |               167 | 36,301                     | 151,358            | 20,663                | 86,112                |
|       9 | Dhule              |               4 |               213 | 69,032                     | 361,205            | 61,464                | 321,369               |
|      10 | Gadchiroli         |              12 |               411 | 69,929                     | 317,527            | 42,341                | 200,848               |
|      11 | Gondia             |               8 |               104 | 21,853                     | 101,101            | 14,779                | 69,130                |
|      12 | Hingoli            |               5 |                81 | 23,954                     | 123,958            | 11,013                | 58,258                |
|      13 | Jalgaon            |              12 |               112 | 32,087                     | 158,166            | 23,416                | 117,106               |
|      14 | Jalna              |               4 |                25 | 11,044                     | 55,716             | 799                   | 3,967                 |
|      15 | Kolhapur           |               1 |                 1 | 245                        | 1,088              | 184                   | 821                   |
|      16 | Latur              |               2 |                 2 | 474                        | 2,391              | 301                   | 1,512                 |
|      17 | Nagpur             |              11 |                58 | 10,581                     | 49,100             | 7,055                 | 33,199                |
|      18 | Nanded             |               9 |               169 | 44,820                     | 215,017            | 20,466                | 100,717               |
|      19 | Nandurbar          |               6 |               717 | 204,755                    | 1,027,852          | 182,924               | 920,553               |
|      20 | Nashik             |              15 |               767 | 174,737                    | 935,236            | 155,229               | 828,239               |
|      21 | Osmanabad          |               2 |                 4 | 1,459                      | 6,613              | 231                   | 1,096                 |
|      22 | Palghar            |               8 |               654 | 211,556                    | 1,049,094          | 181,552               | 910,904               |
|      23 | Parbhani           |               2 |                 5 | 995                        | 4,944              | 760                   | 3,729                 |
|      24 | Pune               |               6 |                99 | 21,450                     | 104,671            | 17,420                | 85,304                |
|      25 | Raigad             |              14 |               113 | 26,730                     | 129,104            | 19,477                | 94,600                |
|      26 | Ratnagiri          |               1 |                 1 | 302                        | 1,395              | 172                   | 795                   |
|      27 | Satara             |               2 |                 4 | 755                        | 3,569              | 511                   | 2,417                 |
|      28 | Solapur            |               3 |                61 | 35,064                     | 181,945            | 1,794                 | 9,595                 |
|      29 | Thane              |               5 |               146 | 36,650                     | 182,262            | 27,771                | 139,039               |
|      30 | Wardha             |               8 |                72 | 15,145                     | 63,532             | 4,848                 | 20,536                |

| 31   | Washim   |   4 | 71    | 26,753    | 123,426   | 7,382   | 33,447    |
|------|----------|-----|-------|-----------|-----------|---------|-----------|
| 32   | Yavatmal |  16 | 366   | 97,136    | 421,974   | 45,436  | 194,743   |
|      | Total    | 214 | 4,975 | 1,287,702 | 6,347,798 | 937,393 | 4,694,682 |

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