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Indira Van Mitan Yojana:
Under the Indira Van Mitan Yojana, youth groups will be formed in 10,000 villages of tribal area of the state. All forest-based economic activities will be conducted through these groups. The groups will work to provide self-employment and prosperity of the forest dwellers through these groups.
The groups will also ensure arrangements for procurement, processing and marketing of forest produce.
The scheme aims to add 19 lakh families from scheduled areas.
The groups will manage trees. They will collect the forest produce from the trees of the forest areas and get economic benefits.
The estimated cost of a unit would be around Rs.10 lakh. An amount of Rs.8.50 crore will be made available for the establishment of forest produce processing units in 85 development blocks of scheduled areas.
Inorder to increase the income of forest dwellers fruit and vegetation plants will be planted instead of timbers in the forests.
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