new delhi the government is taking steps to enhance production and marketing of forest produce of tribal communities and engaging with ecommerce players like amazon and flipkart to push their sales union minister dharmendra pradhan said on wednesday he also said that the tribal community will be the major beneficiary of the emphasis of the national education policy on the use of mother tongue or local language as the medium briefing media about the steps being taken by the government for the welfare of tribals the minister said that financial allocations under centrally sponsored schemes have been increased significantly advt it was increased to rs 91000 crore in 202223 from rs 19437 crore in 201415 he said adding funds are being pumped to open eklavya vidyalaya in the country to strengthen education ecosystem for them he added that about 10 lakh tribal beneficiaries are connected with van dhan vikas kendras through 55000 selfhelp groups the objective of these centres is to ensure the availability of primary processing and value addition for forest produce to provide employment for tribals and increase their income the government is taking steps to increase production of their produce improve packaging branding marketing he said adding we are using platforms like amazon and flipkart also for tribal products further he said that a national tribal research institute ntri was set up besides all the basic facilities are being provided in villages having over 50 per cent tribal population tribal population will also be benefitted from the promotion of millets under the international year of millets 2023 pradhan added the government is committed for the overall empowerment of the tribals of india he said tribal community accounts for about 9 per cent of the countrys total population pti published on dec 21 2022 at 0151 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app ecommerce online shopping amazon flipkart tribal community homenewsengaging ecommerce players to push sales of goods produced by tribals pradhan