Amid polls, PM Modi launches Janman Scheme, Sankalp Yatra

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PM Janman, aimed at social justice to the tribals with a budget allocation of 24,000 crore as well as the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra - a drive to create awareness and facilitate saturation of welfare schemes that will continue till January 26 across the country - were launched by the PM at Kunti in Jharkhand...

The PM Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan (PM-Janman) will work towards protection and nurturing of tribes - some of them living in remote jungles - which are on the verge of extinction..

Under PM Janman, the government has identified 75 tribal communities and primitive tribes with a population of lakhs who reside in more than 22,000 villages in the country..

PM Janman has started today with this aim," the PM said.. Underscoring the difference in approach between previous regimes and his government since 2014, the PM said, "The attitude of previous governments used to be that they are 'mai-baap' of people while we began with the spirit of service..

It is the same bureaucracy, same people, same files, but thinking has changed and with it the outcomes have also changed." Sharing figures to underline achievements, Modi said, "Earlier only 40% of the villages were covered under cleanliness but today the aim is to cover all..

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