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created; starting a boarding school like Navoday or Eklavya in
tribal districts and providing quality equivalent to city schools;
Establishing more than 100 hostels for engineering, nursing,
ITI, polytechnics and other colleges in the tribal areas; starting
traditional arts, science and commerce colleges in the rural areas.

     (3) Speeding up financial progress in tribal areas by
providing proper markets to tribal products, supporting
traditional skills and identifying the use of area and traditional
activities; making a cluster and have the approach of combined
financial progress; giving one crore rupees annually to every
sub-district; developing infrastructural facilities and enlisting
people in activities that they are interested in; improving the
quality of traditional tools and ensuring that a better yield is
obtained from raw materials.

     (4) Ensuring that tribal women and infants get the benefit
of “Chiranjivi Yojna”; providing nutrition to pregnant women
and children under the age of six; special health check-ups for
tribal families; financial assistance for heart surgeries of tribal
living below the poverty line; creating awareness about the
treatment of diseases such as sickle cell anaemia and
leptospirosis.

     (5) Planning to provide houses to all tribal families during
the next five-year plan.

     (6) Providing clean and pure drinking water to all tribal
families in the next five-year plan and providing drinking water
through pipelines to at least 25 per cent tribal families.

     (7) Emphasizing “Juth Yojna”; constructing check dams and
watersheds; providing technical assistance and loans for drip
irrigation facilities.

     (8) Improving the quality of roads in rural areas; renovating
the existing roads; connecting every area with a population of
less than 250 to the roads.

     (9) Free electrification of tribal families below poverty line;
electrification of all sub-areas and promoting alternative energy
sources such as solar energy.

     (10) Financial and cultural development of 13 cities having
large tribal populations; providing broadband connectivity to
the main centres of sub-districts in the coming five years.
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