In a letter addressed to Jual Oram, Ramesh argued that the project proceeds in direct violation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) and the righ...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah assured tribal communities that the Uniform Civil Code will not impact their traditions or customs, urging th...

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has allocated key portfolios to the first five members of his council of ministers. Senior BJP ...

Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has written to the Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupinder Yadav over escal...

West Bengal's long-standing political clashes with the central government over welfare schemes are set to change. With the BJP now in power...

The Centre has flagged West Bengal's failure to implement key central schemes for tribal welfare. Programs like PM-JANMAN and DAJGUA, launc...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked Trinamool and Congress for allegedly conspiring to defeat the Women's Reservation Bill. He addressed ...

Union Tribal Welfare Minister Jual Oram announced that the Centre would consider increased empowerment of Autonomous District Councils in t...

The ministry has received the clearance of the expenditure finance committee (EFC) and is likely to get the Cabinet nod within this month.

Of 1,530 proposals, while 205 were rejected on various grounds, 1,325 were found deserving. Of these 1,288 are still pending at the state l...

The Centre had allocated Rs 39,135 crore, the highest amount so far, under the Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) or Scheduled Tribes Component (STC) fo...

All 28 central ministries and departments are divided into three categories as per funds set aside for TSP from their total outlay.

NCTW was set up in 2010 by the Congress-led UPA government but the initiative never took off.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today emphasised the need to improve the outcomes of various interventions and enhanced convergence of the sev...

Various measures are initiated to improve physical infrastructure like roads and railways in tribal areas including those affected by left ...

Department of school education and literacy under the ministry revealed in its response that it had allocated 55% of the total TSP in unive...