The Ministry of Tribal Affairs will launch two national digital platforms during this year's Janjatiya Gaurav Pakhwada — a National Forest Rights Act (FRA) Digital Platform that moves the entire forest-rights claim process onto a single system, and Jan-HIT, a portal built with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) that the Ministry describes as India's first platform for tribe-disaggregated health data, according to a release issued through the Press Information Bureau (PIB).

Source: Ministry of Tribal Affairs via PIB, reported by Elets eGov

The launches were announced by the Ministry on 27 October 2026 as part of its plans for the fortnight-long observance from 1 to 15 November, which culminates in Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas on 15 November, the birth anniversary of Dharti Aaba Bhagwan Birsa Munda. The Government of India designated 15 November as Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas in 2021 to honour the contribution of tribal heroes to India's freedom struggle.

Source: India Education Diary (PIB release)

Forest rights, end to end on one system

According to the Ministry, the National FRA Digital Platform will cover the full life cycle of claims under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 — from the submission of claims by Gram Sabhas through to the issue of digitally signed titles. Its components include AI-powered digital archives to make FRA records searchable, an FRA Atlas for spatial visualisation and real-time monitoring, a claimant-facing chatbot, and a decision support system for policymaking.

The platform grew out of a Smart India Hackathon 2025 problem statement. In January 2026, the Ministry said it had become the first in the Government of India to bring all five hackathon finalist teams — rather than only the winner — into a structured post-hackathon programme, working with technical experts from IIT Delhi and the National Informatics Centre (NIC) to co-develop a single national platform.

Jan-HIT: health data, tribe by tribe

The second launch, the Jan-HIT (Janjatiya Health Intelligence and Technology) Portal, has been developed with ICMR and will provide health data disaggregated by tribe across 20 states, the Ministry said. Health indicators for Scheduled Tribes are typically reported as a single aggregate, which can mask wide variation between communities; a tribe-wise view is intended to help target interventions more precisely.

20 statesCoverage of tribe-wise health data on the Jan-HIT portal
73 districtsWhere scholarship access camps are helping tribal students
1.54 lakhAdi Karmayogi volunteers across 76,963 villages being trained
300+ projectsTribal projects lined up — 228 for inauguration, 74 for foundation laying

The two platforms sit within a wider last-mile push planned for the fortnight: states will hold Aadhaar, Ayushman card and sickle cell screening camps along with legal literacy camps on forest rights, and more than 300 projects for tribal communities are lined up for Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas, the Ministry said.