Following the success of the Village and Digital connect initiative during which TRIFED’sregional
officials across the country went to identified villages with a significant tribal population and
supervised the implementation of the various programmes and initiatives earlier in 2021, TRIFED
under Ministry of Tribal Affairs has now launched “Sankalp se Siddhi” - Village & Digital Connect
Drive. Starting from April 1, 2021, this 100 day drive will entail 150 teams (10 in each region from
TRIFED and State Implementation Agencies/Mentoring Agencies/Partners) visiting ten villages
each . 100 villages in each region and 1500 villages in the country will be covered in the next 100
days.
The main aim of this drive is to activate the Van Dhan Vikas Kendras in these villages.
Among all of TRIFED’s initiatives that have been put in place to help the disadvantaged tribal
sections of the society, the Scheme, Mechanism for Marketing of Minor Forest Produce (MFP)
Through Minimum Support Price (MSP) & Development of Value Chain for MFP’ that provides
MSP to gatherers of forest produce and introduces value addition and marketing through tribal
groups and clusters and Van Dhan Vikas Kendras has found widespread acceptance across the
country. Especially during the pandemic in 2020, this scheme has emerged as a panacea for the
tribals.
The objective of the MSP for MFP scheme is to establish a framework for ensuring fair prices for the
tribal gatherers, primary processing, storage, transportation etc. while ensuring sustainability of the
resource base addressing the problems tribals are facing such as perishable nature of the produce, lack
of holding capacity, lack of marketing infrastructure, exploitation by middle men, and timely
government intervention. Rs 200 crore Sales during the next 12 months is targeted as a result of this
initiative once the VDVKs are activated in these 1500 villages. The visiting teams will also identify
locations and shortlist potential VDVKs for clustering as TRIFOOD, and SFURTI units as larger
enterprises. They will also identify tribal artisans and other groups and empanel them as suppliers so
that they can have access to larger markets through the Tribes India network – both physical outlets
andTribesIndia.com.
It is expected that Sankalp Se Siddhi will aid in effecting a complete transformation of the tribal
ecosystem across the country.