Amount Spent by Trifed to Procure Tribal Products
Amount Spent by Trifed to Procure Tribal
Products
The amount spent by
Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Limited (TRIFED)
to procure tribal products during the last three years is as under:-
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Sl. No
|
Year
|
Purchase (Rs in Lakhs)
|
|
1
|
2012-13
|
943.74
|
|
2
|
2013-14
|
1049.62
|
|
3
|
2014-15
|
891.05
|
The amount passed
on to tribal artisans/producers against the purchase of these products during
the last three years is as under:-
|
Sl. No
|
Year
|
Purchase (Rs in Lakhs)
|
|
1
|
2012-13
|
525.69
|
|
2
|
2013-14
|
578.92
|
|
3
|
2014-15
|
536.99
|
The sourcing of
tribal products by TRIFED are undertaken through empanelled suppliers
comprising individual tribal artisans, tribal SHGs and Organisations/ NGOs/
Agencies working with tribal artisans. After empanelment of the artisans, the
samples collected from them are forwarded to TRIFED’s Purchase and Pricing
(P&P) Committee at Head Office for including the same in the Tribes India
product line. The P&P Committee after assessing the samples recommend for
either including the products in Tribes India product-line at a particular
price or reject the same, as the case may be. The price for a particular
product is fixed while ensuring that tribals receive fair price for their
products and at the same time the products are sold from Tribes India Outlets
after adding the margin.
This information was given by Union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs
Shri Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava in a
written reply in Rajya Sabha
today.
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Tribals in A & N Islands
The tribe-wise population of Scheduled Tribes in Andaman and Nicobar Islands as
per Census 2011 is given below: -
|
Tribes
|
Population
|
|
Andamanese,
Chariar, Chari, Kora, Tabo,
Bo, Yere, Kede, Bea, Balawa,
Bojigiyab, Juwai, Kol
|
44
|
|
Jarawas
|
380
|
|
Nicobarese
|
27168
|
|
Onges
|
101
|
|
Sentinelese
|
15
|
|
Shom Pens
|
229
|
Based on information received from the Directorate of
Tribal Welfare, Andaman and Nicobar (A&N) Administration, Nicobarese follow
Islam and Christianity.
The A&N Administration has opened various channels
of communication with the Jarawas so as to ascertain their present concerns as
well as their future needs within the framework of Government of India’s
Policy. This has yielded promising results in terms of the communities’ greater
confidence in sharing information relating to poaching, encroachment and other
forms of abuse they have had to face.
With regard to Sentinelese tribes, the A&N
Administration has adopted an ‘eyes-on and hands-off’ policy to ensure that no
poachers enter into the island. A protocol of Circumnavigation of the North
Sentinel Island has been made and notified in consultation with Government of
India, which have yielded meaningful results.
Exclusive medical wards in Primary
Health Centres (PHCs) located near the Jarawa Reserve at Tushnabad, Kadamtala
and GB Pant Hospital, Port Blair have been set up for treatment of
Jarawas. Such wards are also declared as Tribal Reserve under the
Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Regulation, 1956 to prevent any interaction of
the unauthorised non-tribals with the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups
(PVTGs). Medical Sub Centres have been established by the A&N
Administration at Dugong Creek in Little Andaman & Strait Island for providing
health care facilities to the Onges& Andamanese tribes. Health card
of each individual of PVTGs is maintained by Tribal Welfare Officers of Andaman
Adim Janjati Vikas Samitie (AAJVS)/Medical Sub Centres and are regularly
updated.
The expertise available with
the Central Government Institutions like Regional Medical Research Centre
(RMRC), the Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and
Homoeopathy(AYUSH) & GB Pant Hospital is utilized for the wellbeing of the
PVTGs from time to time. Nutritional supplements are being provided to
the pregnant women, lactating mothers and infants belonging to
Onge&Andamanse tribes through AAJVS. Currently Shompen/ Nicobari/
Onges patients are airlifted to Port Blair for treatment in case of emergency from
Campbell Bay & Dugong Creek by the A&N Administration through the
existing fleet of Helicopters.
The A&N Administration through AAJVS extends all
financial support to the tribal students of Onge&Andamanese communities for
their education at the primary, middle and higher secondary levels. Exclusive
Middle level schools have been established in the tribal settlements for Onges
at Dugong Creek, Little Andaman and for Andamanese at Strait Islands. Informal
education system has been introduced amongst the Jarawas and Onges children
through bilingual bicultural curriculum developed by Andaman and Nicobar Tribal
Research Institute (ANTRI) and AAJVS.
This information was given by Union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs
Shri Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava in a
written reply in Rajya Sabha
today.
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Preservation of Cultural
Life of Tribals of A&N Islands
The
Ministry of Tribal Affairs supports documentation and preservation of tribal
culture. As a part of the scheme of “Research, Information & Mass
Education, Tribal Festivals and Others”, financial assistance is extended to
Tribal Research Institutes (TRIs) established in eighteen States and the Union
Territory of Andaman & Nicobar Islands. In addition to the above, in
2014-15 this Ministry has launched Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana as a strategic
approach and one of the focus areas of this strategy is tribal culture.
Ministry of Culture, Government of India through the Zonal Cultural Centres has
also organized several programmes on folk, tribal culturs, festivals in Andaman
& Nicobar Islands for the preservation of cultural life of the Tribals. The
Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, has undertaken various projects
for the preservation of tribal culture in Andaman and Nicobar Islands,
including study on the language of particularly vulnerable tribes. Andaman and
Nicobar Administration encourage tribal communities to showcase the rich
culture heritage of Nicobarese in the Island Tourism Festival at Port Blair,
every year.
The Andaman & Nicobar Administration has apprised that a Memorial has been constructed at the entrance of the Water Sports Complex at Port Blair in the memory of those Great Andamanese, who had laid down their lives in the famous Battle of Aberdeen fought on 17th May 1859 against Britishers and a solemn function is organized every year on this day. Ministry of Culture, through its autonomous organization namely Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre (EZCC), Kolkata, had organized a theatre show namely “Aberdeen Ki Ladai” performed by rural artistes of Andaman & Nicober Islands in the year 2006 at Kolkata and Santiniketan.
This information was given by Union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Shri Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.
The Andaman & Nicobar Administration has apprised that a Memorial has been constructed at the entrance of the Water Sports Complex at Port Blair in the memory of those Great Andamanese, who had laid down their lives in the famous Battle of Aberdeen fought on 17th May 1859 against Britishers and a solemn function is organized every year on this day. Ministry of Culture, through its autonomous organization namely Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre (EZCC), Kolkata, had organized a theatre show namely “Aberdeen Ki Ladai” performed by rural artistes of Andaman & Nicober Islands in the year 2006 at Kolkata and Santiniketan.
This information was given by Union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Shri Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.
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