'Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan aims to meet some of the Sustainable Development Goals'. Discuss. (Answer in 250 words)

- 'Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan aims to meet some of the Sustainable Development Goals'. Discuss. (Answer in 250 words)
Introduction
Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan, approved in 2024 and named for Birsa Munda, applies the saturation method to tribal villages. Its alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals is real for services and weak for the rights that cause tribal deprivation.

Body
1. The design: an outlay of the order of Rs 79,000 crore, approximate, covering roughly 63,000 tribal-majority villages in some 550 districts and about five crore people. Seventeen interventions are delivered by seventeen ministries in convergence — pucca housing, all-weather roads, piped water, electrification and mobile connectivity, Ayushman cards and mobile medical units, sickle cell screening, Anganwadis, Eklavya schools and hostels, Van Dhan Vikas Kendras for minor forest produce, forest rights facilitation and skilling.
2. The goals it touches: poverty and housing under Goal 1, nutrition and forest produce under Goal 2, health and sickle cell under Goal 3, residential schooling under Goal 4, drinking water under Goal 6, electricity under Goal 7, skills and value addition under Goal 8, connectivity under Goal 9, and the reduction of group inequality under Goal 10.
3. How far it can deliver: saturation in a defined geography removes targeting error, which is exactly what Goal 10 requires, and convergence answers the fragmentation that defeated the Tribal Sub-Plan. But the scheme mostly re-badges existing programmes, so its performance is theirs.
4. Gaps and risks: the village threshold excludes dispersed tribal households; land, forest rights and displacement, the actual sources of deprivation, are barely addressed; and saturation may be declared on outputs installed rather than services delivered.

Conclusion
It is the largest tribal programme yet attempted and the first to be designed around convergence rather than allocation. Its record is still too thin to assess, and no independent evaluation has been published.