UPSC CDS GS Economy Questions Part 2

Only statement (2) is correct with regard to the newly launched Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana. Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs on 28th October, 2014 launched Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana (VKY) for the welfare of tribal people and particularly to lift human development indices of the tribal people.The scheme was launched on pilot basis in one block each of the States of Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Gujarat. Under the scheme, the Union Government will provide 10 crore rupees for each block for the development of various facilities for the tribal people. These blocks have been selected on the recommendations of the concerned States and have a very low literacy rate. Hence, statement (1) is not correct. The scheme mainly focuses on bridging infrastructural gaps and gap in human development indices between scheduled tribes and other social groups.