Minister Temjen Imna Along and others during the launching of the tribal affairs department website on August 6.
Our Correspondent
Kohima | August 8
Nagaland’s Tribal Affairs & Higher Education Minister Temjen Imna Along launched the website of the state Tribal Affairs Department on August 6.
The website is tribalaffairs.nagaland.gov.in
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs under the Government of India (GoI) was set up in 1999 with the objective of providing a more focused approach towards the integrated socio-economic development of the Scheduled Tribes (the most underprivileged section of the Indian society) in a coordinated and planned manner.
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs is the Nodal Ministry for overall policy planning and coordination of programmes for development of Scheduled Tribes. Accordingly, most of the States including the neighboring North Eastern States and Union Territories in India have already set up their own separate Department of Tribal Affairs for effective coordination with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and focused planning and implementation of programmes in the State and UTs.
In the state of Nagaland, presently, the different programmes and schemes under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs are scattered under different Departments of the State like the Planning, Social Welfare, Forest & Home Department (Home Branch) and Higher Education.
It has resulted in lack of co-ordination and supervision in the State for the activities, schemes and programmes under Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
It is, therefore, felt there is an immediate need and time has come for the State of Nagaland to set up separate Department of Tribal Affairs in order to effectively implement different Welfare Schemes and programme for the Scheduled Tribe community in Nagaland which is predominantly a tribal dominated State.
As such, a separate and dedicated Department of Tribal Affairs shall be in a direct position to focus, plan and implement programmes effectively as per the mandate under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India.
The state cabinet in its meeting held on August 3, 2019 created a new Department of Tribal Affairs.
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