Food and Livelihood

Food & Livelihood
Tribals once known for their self sustained economy are now under the threat of losing their livelihood and food and on the verge of extinction due to non tribal intrusion and exploitation, severe natural resource depletion, land alienation, displacement and intrusion of multinational companies.

In the light of Supreme Court guidelines to ensure right to food, work, pension and nutrition through implementation of centrally sponsored schemes; ARTS started working on the effective implementation of the schemes since 2004.



    Public Distribution System
    Anthyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY)
    Annapurna
    Old Age Pension
    National Family Benefit Scheme
    National Maternity Benefit scheme
    Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS)
    Mid Day Meals
    Food for Work
    Sampurna Grameena Rozgar Yojana

The major activities evolved under this sector are:

    Support to vulnerable groups
    Promotion of grain banks
  Streamlining PDS
Promotion of market committees
  Value addition training of forest products for women and other income generation programmes