Union Budget 2025: Packages for scheme saturation, Ekalavya schools push Tribal Affairs allocation up 14.8%
The Hindu
Union Budget 2025-26 allocates ₹14,925.81 crore for Tribal Affairs and ₹14,886 crore for Social Justice Ministries.
The Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs has been allocated ₹14,925.81 crore, while the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has been allocated ₹14,886 crore in the Union Budget 2025-26, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharman on Saturday (February 1, 2025).
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The allocations marked a 14.81% increase for Tribal Affairs Ministry compared to the previous year’s Budget Estimates (BE), whereas the Social Justice Ministry saw an increase of about 4.6%. This comes despite both Ministries seeing reductions at the Revised Estimate (RE) stage.
While the BE 2024-25 had allocated ₹13,000 crore for Tribal Affairs Ministry, the RE for the year had been brought down to ₹10,237.33 crore. Similarly, the Social Justice Ministry’s RE for 2024-25 had been brought down to ₹11,193.67 crore from the July 2024 allocation of ₹14,225.47 crore.
However, the Actual Expenditure for both Ministries was significantly lower for FY 2023-24, according to the Budget documents, which showed that the Tribal Affairs Ministry was able to spend ₹7,511.64 crore and the Social Justice Ministry had spent ₹9,703.61 crore in FY23-24.
This year’s increase in the budget allocation for the Tribal Affairs Ministry has come largely towards the implementation of the Dharti Aba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan (DAJGUA), announced in last year’s Budget, PM-JANMAN package for development of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups, and the flagship Eklavya Model Residential School (EMRS) scheme for tribal students. However, this year’s Budget showed that no allocation was made towards the Marketing and Logistics Development for Promoting Tribal Products scheme from North-Eastern Region, which had been allocated ₹107.52 crore in last year’s BE, cut down to just ₹2 crore in the RE stage.
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Union Budget 2025-26 allocates ₹14,925.81 crore for Tribal Affairs and ₹14,886 crore for Social Justice Ministries.