Announcing Parivaar’s Enablement Mission
Goal : Empowering impoverished tribal communities by facilitating access to Government Welfare Schemes.
For long, we felt that having done the heavy lifting task of reaching and having permanently stationed personnel and contact-persons that we have in thousands of remote tribal villages (often difficult to access) through our programs like Seva Kutirs, Mobile Medical Clinics, Ambulance Services, and Vision Restoration Outreach Programs, we should leverage this for ensuring the population in these communities do receive all the benefits through various State and Central Government Schemes that are in place for them.
In the beginning stage we have been continuously conducting comprehensive surveys to collect data through direct people contact in large numbers from remote tribal villages in Madhya Pradesh for a range of key social security and welfare schemes.
At present we are focusing on enlisting people in the following key schemes, though our efforts are not limited to these only:
● Bal Ashirwad Yojana (Child Welfare Scheme)
● Disabled Pension Scheme
● Widow Pension Scheme
● Old Age Pension Scheme
● Ayushman Bharat Yojana (Health Insurance Scheme)
● Ration Card / BPL Card
● Antyodaya Card (Food Security for the Poorest)
● Ladli Laxmi Yojana (Scheme for Girls’ Welfare)
Often we have to begin by providing assistance to people in these communities in getting necessary documents without which they cannot avail of any benefits. Our dedicated grassroots Sevavratees help in receiving in hand – which itself can often be quite time-consuming and entailing multiple rounds to government offices – key personal documents like Aadhaar Card, Birth Certificate, Voter IDs, Domicile Certificates, Caste Certificate, Income Certificate etc, ensuring they can successfully apply for and receive the benefits they are entitled to.
It might appear surprising but we have come across not an insignificant number of people who do not have even these documents that one assumes everyone in the country has.
In the last two months we have started this program in the following 4 districts in Madhya Pradesh, where dedicated resource persons (Enablement Mission Anchors) have been appointed to execute this program, under the supervision and guidance of the our District Leadership team and who use our vast ‘on the ground’ network to achieve these ends.
(i) Sheopur – among Sahariya tribe, which is a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group)
(ii) Alirajpur – the least literate district of the entire country, with literacy rate of 37 %)
(iii) Barwani – an extremely impoverished district with significant tribal population and also categorised as an ‘Aspirational District’)
(iv) Khandwa (which has the block called ‘Khalwa’ which has been quite infamous insofaras malnourishment is concerned It is also categorised as an
‘Aspirational District’)
Thus through this program we are endearing to improve the quality of life of people from highly impoverished communities by ensurinh they can get benefits of the entitlement framework amd social schemes of the Welfare State that the Government and their Indian citizenship guarantees.
