Chenchu tribe children suffer from malnutrition  Issue Children belonging to Chenchu tribe in Andhra Pradesh suffer from malnutrition owing to lack of proper diet. They are deprived of clothing and medical facilities too. Background  Chenchus live in deplorable conditions and their children suffer from undergrowth and various skin diseases. In a recent study, a team

Tendu leaves cushion tribals from economic deprivation during COVID-19 At around 4 am, Shamli Devi leaves her home with a water bottle, torch and a clean cloth, walking nearly 5 km to the nearest forest in eastern Madhya Pradesh’s Mandla district. For the next five or six hours, Shamli toils away in the heat, plucking

Scientists to study astronomical beliefs of Indian tribal communities  “India has several tribal communities that have their own cultural practices… So, by interacting with these communities, we can understand their traditional astronomical knowledge and probably gain insights into their lives going back a few millennia,” said Dr Aniket Sule. Scientists are planning to visit tribal

Udaipur’s Jovaki empowers tribal women by processing wild fruits & vegetable Every year beginning October, Sitara Devi’s day would start by collecting custard apples from the forests around her home in Gogunda village of Udaipur district in Rajasthan. Gogunda tehsil is home to the Gameti (Bhil) and Garasiya tribes, who are heavily dependent on forests

Tribal women farmers train to be ‘nutrition entrepreneurs’ to contribute to healthier community diets The hands that farm the fields and cook the family meals are now taking on bigger ventures by running small businesses that contribute to healthier community diets. To take on the role of ‘nutrition entrepreneurs’ tribal women farmers in Telangana, India,

Team TRIFED Van Dhan India shows the way ‘Work from Home’.  Continuing working from home, located in 27 States of the country, a group of over 500 officials from TRIFED, an organisation under the M/o Tribal Affairs, have unleashed the power of Webinars to keep in touch with each other and keep moving and working.

Is uprooting millions of poor tribals from their ancestral homelands ethical? One should not have been surprised when the Centre failed to send its lawyers to the hearing on Forest Rights Act One should not have been surprised when the Centre failed to send its lawyers to the hearing on Forest Rights Act. One has

TRIFED’S “PRODUCTS” A Multi Stakeholders Workshop on “Strategies for Promoting and Marketing of Tribal Products” was organised by TRIFED under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, and it was presided over by Union Ministers for Commerce, Industry, and Railways and Tribal Affairs.   IMPORTANT INFORMATION For the purpose of discussing and deciding on a Plan of