Ministry of Tribal Affairs to Organize India’s First National Capacity Building Programme for Tribal Healers to Strengthen Health Outreach in Tribal Areas

• First-of-its-kind national initiative by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA) to formally recognise, train and integrate tribal/indigenous healers as community health partners.
• Anchored by a landmark MoU with ICMR–RMRC, Bhubaneswar to set up the Bharat Tribal Health Observatory (B-THO) under Project DRISTI.
• UPSC relevance: intersects GS-I (tribal society), GS-II (health, vulnerable sections, schemes), GS-III (S&T/health surveillance) — a high-probability Prelims hook on a named first with multiple acronyms.