PM-JANMAN and PVTG Welfare — The Juang Tribal Tragedy and Gaps in Tribal Development Policy
The deaths of 14 girls from Odisha’s Juang community, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), in an ammonia gas leak at a seafood processing plant in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur district has brought national attention to the persistent socio-economic marginalisation of India’s most vulnerable tribal populations, despite decades of targeted government interventions and substantial financial outlays….