Recently Ministry of Tribal Affairs has revamped the existing Scheme of ‘Special Central Assistance to Pradhan Mantro Adi Adarsha Gram Yojana.

About Pradhan Mantri Adi Adarsh Gram Yojana:

• Aim: Transforming villages with significant tribal population into model village (Adarsh Gram) covering about population of 4.22 crore (About 40% of the total Tribal Population)

Objective

• To achieve integrated socio-economic development of selected villages through convergence approach.
• Improving the infrastructure in vital sectors like health, education, connectivity and livelihood.
• It includes maximizing the coverage of individual / family benefit schemes of the Central / State Governments.
• The scheme envisions to mitigate gaps prominently in 8 sectors of development viz. Road connectivity , Telecom connectivity , School, Anganwadi Centres, Health Sub-Centre, Drinking water facility.

Revised Guidelines of the scheme

• The Scheme was revised to capture the Gaps in critical socio-economic ‘Monitorable Indicators’ as part of various sectors/domains namely; water and sanitation, education, health and nutrition, agricultural best practices etc

New Approach for implementation

• The identification of needs or Gaps with regard to the ‘Monitorable Indicators’ are based on a Need Assessment exercise. 
• The ‘Village Development Plan’ (VDP) is based on the data collected as part of the Need Assessment exercise.
• PMAGY provids the platform for convergent implementation of other Schemes with the aim to achieve saturation in the various domains.