Abstract
This research article compares the effectiveness of government-initiated programs in India. It explores the technical and scale efficiency of the Van Dhan Yojana (VDY) and explains, using existing literature and results, how these schemes can enhance tribal communities. This article also tells that apart from the VDY, for the entrepreneurship of a tribal, the government has started such startups, under Developed India Initiative. The Van Dhan Yojana is more than just a welfare program; it’s a means by which traditional knowledge gained from the forest may be transformed into economic independence and social empowerment. In this paper, we discuss how India can make efforts to become a developed country. The researcher focuses on the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), factoring inputs and outputs from the government initiative involving Van Dhan Yojana. Without taking on a functional form, DEA is a good fit for assessing government programs with multiple inputs and results. The research aims to see how well tribal welfare has improved in India’s 22 provinces (also known as states). The study analyses input and output slacks to find areas of inefficiency and then uses DEA to quantify technical, scale, and returns-to-scale efficiencies. This article also explores the twentytwo states’ improvement in livelihoods and how these schemes work.
Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Efficiency Measurement, Tribal Welfare, Van Dhan Yojana