Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda to receive SKOCH Challenger Award virtually tomorrow

Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda will virtually receive SKOCH Challenger Award conferred to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs for e-Governance tomorrow. The award has been given to the Ministry for its IT-led initiatives and other transformational initiatives leading to outcome-based performance improvement.

 

The Ministry of Tribal Affairs has taken up several transformational initiatives recently. It has digitalised all the



processes leading to a paperless office, monitoring is data driven and a performance dashboard is d on a real time basis. There is transparency with tribal related data available in the public domain.

 

Mr Arjun Munda said, there is a dramatic change in the approach to policy making and action. He said, the government wants evidence-based policy making which will be realistic and address the problems of tribals at the grass root.