TRIFED

Subject :Polity

Section: National body

Context: TRIFEED Chief suspend MD, Ministry declare order null and void

More about the news:

TRIFED chairman Ramsinh Rathwa suspended managing director Gitanjali Gupta over administrative decisions, prompting the Ministry of Tribal Affairs to declare the suspension order “null and void.”
Gupta’s suspension was related to an order denying an official’s extension and appointing an official in the chairman’s office, which Rathwa canceled.
An administrative feud between the politically appointed Rathwa and bureaucrat Gupta had been ongoing since March, sparked by a letter identifying two RSS-affiliated organizations as “political bodies.”
The ministry has indicated that the managing director’s appointment was done by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC).

More about TRIFED:

TRIFED stands for The Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India
TRIFED was established in 1987 under the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act, 1984 as a National level Cooperative body under the administrative control of the then Ministry of Tribal Affairs of India.
It has its headquarters located in New Delhi with a network of 13 Regional Offices.
It is mandated to bring about socio-economic development of tribals of the country by institutionalizing the trade of Minor Forest Produce (MFP) & Surplus Agricultural Produce (SAP) collected by them.
It also involves capacity building of the tribal people through sensitization, the formation of Self Help Groups and imparting training to them for undertaking a particular activity.
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs shall announce Minimum Support Price (MSP) for the selected MFPs with the technical support from TRIFED.
TRIFED’s MSP for MFP & VanDhan program is in line with the “The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers ( Forest Rights Act, 2006 )”, a key forest legislation passed for securing protection & livelihood of poor tribals and concerns with the rights of forest-dwelling communities to land and other natural resources

Some initiatives by TRIFED:

‘Van Dhan Yojana’: Trifed’s ‘Van Dhan Yojana’ seeks to shift tribal economy from supply of raw materials to value-added processing of these materials.
Tech for Tribals: It aims at the holistic development of tribals with a focus on entrepreneurship development, soft skills, IT, and business development through self help groups (SHGs) operating through Van Dhan Vikas Kendras (VDVKs).
Sankalp Se Siddhi – Mission Van Dhan: TRIFED plans to expand its operations through convergence of various schemes of different Ministries and Departments and launch the various tribal development programs.