The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJE) will launch the PM-AJAY Portal and AJAY Mobile App to strengthen the implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Anusuchit Jaati Abhyuday Yojana (PM-AJAY). The initiative aims to fully digitize grassroots workflows and improve transparency, monitoring, and delivery of welfare services for Scheduled Caste (SC) communities.
Features of the PM-AJAY Portal:
The portal will act as a centralized digital platform for:
Monitoring scheme implementation
Tracking fund flow
Beneficiary management
Village Development Plans (VDPs)
Real-time reporting and inspections.
The dashboard will track development progress in:
More than 47,000 SC-majority villages
Over 40 lakh beneficiaries nationwide.
Major Components Covered
The portal and app will digitize all three components of PM-AJAY:
Adarsh Gram Component
Digital planning for SC-majority villages
Monitoring through 50 socio-economic indicators across 10 development domains.
Grant-in-Aid (GIA) Component
Skill development and livelihood support
Centralized Management Information System (MIS).
Hostel Component
Online submission and tracking of hostel construction and repair proposals for SC students.
About the AJAY Mobile App
Provides mobile-based access to scheme services
Enables:
Offline surveys
Geo-tagging
Real-time inspections
Beneficiary tracking
Photo uploads and monitoring.
Additional Key Facts:
PM-AJAY was launched in 2021-22 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme for socio-economic upliftment of SC communities.
The scheme focuses on:
Poverty reduction
Skill development
Employment generation
Infrastructure development in SC-dominated villages.
The initiative aligns with the government’s Digital India programme promoting e-governance and digital service delivery.
PM-AJAY integrates earlier schemes related to:
SC hostels
Skill development
Adarsh Gram initiatives.
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