Namda project will benefit 2,250 people of 30 Namda Clusters from 6 districts of Srinagar, Baramulla, Ganderbal, Bandipora, Budgam and Anantnag while RPL initiative targets to upskill 10,900 artisans and weavers of Jammu and Kashmir. A similar pilot project will be launched in Nagaland also next month

Average daily footfall of 10,000, even went up to 20,000 visitors. Last four days of the fest expected to attract more visitors

LG Manoj Sinha said it is aimed at making tribal children future-ready; also announced scholarships to 21,000 children of Gaddi, Sippi, Dard, Sheena communities, which were deprived of it for the last three decades

Those bagging the honours hailed from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Odisha

Gond Bhuiyan tribal women have risen up strongly against Mahua and Hadia, joining hands to shut shops and stop drinking. Sudhir Kumar Mishra reports

Home Minister said she was not a queen by birth but was given the title by the masses and when that happens it stays on forever

The freedom fighters museum to come up in her birthplace at Luangkao village in Imphal East; Rani led the movement against the British and was imprisoned for 14 long years

But absence of central database for carriers and diseased despite about 10% of tribals being gene carriers impeding prevention and elimination efforts

Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, MP and Odisha are yet to frame the PESA Rules; Centre to take up the matter with the respective State Governments

National conference on PESA held jointly by Union Ministries of Tribal Affairs and Rural Development and Panchayati Raj