Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda launches TRIFED Digital Platforms through video conference
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- Tribal Affairs Ministry has taken several immediate initiatives to re-energise the lagging economic activity for sustaining the livelihood development of tribals to ease the burden of the tribal artisans arising out of COVID pandemic.
- Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda said that the team of “TRIFED Warriors” will take Tribal Commerce based on forest produces, handlooms and handicrafts to a new high for transforming tribal lives and livelihoods.
Source: AIR
Related General Knowledge
Ministry of Tribal Affairs
- The Ministry of Tribal Affairs is the nodal Ministry for overall policy, planning and coordination of programmes for development of ST’s.
- Officeholder: Arjun Munda
- Founded: October 1999
- Headquarters: Shastri Bhawan, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi - 110 011
- Jurisdiction: India
- Annual budget: 6,000 crores INR (2018-19 est., US$870 million)
Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED)
- The Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED) came into existence in 1987.
- It is a national-level apex organization functioning under the administrative control of Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Govt. of India.
- TRIFED has its key objectives of promoting tribal art & craft, hand looms and set-up tribal community owned Minor Forest Produce (MFP)-centric multi-purpose Van Dhan Vikas Kendras for the benefit of tribal artisans and Minor Forest Produce gatherers of the country.