The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJE) will launch the PM-AJAY portal and the AJAY mobile application to digitise the implementation and monitoring of the Pradhan Mantri Anusuchit Jaati Abhyuday Yojna (PM-AJAY) scheme across the country.
The platforms will be launched by Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Virendra Kumar in the presence of Minister of State B.L. Verma, Social Justice Secretary Sudhansh Pant and senior ministry officials. Secretaries and senior officials from states and Union Territories will also join the event virtually.
The ministry said the PM-AJAY portal has been designed to improve coordination among stakeholders while ensuring faster and more transparent delivery of services to beneficiaries. The dashboard will track socio-economic development in more than 47,000 Scheduled Caste-majority villages and monitor over 4 million beneficiaries across various components of the scheme.
The portal will act as a centralised digital database and enable milestone-linked fund flow mechanisms. For the Adarsh Gram component, the system will replace paper-based planning with digital village-level planning and provide national, state and district dashboards to monitor progress across 50 socio-economic indicators spread over 10 developmental domains.
According to the ministry, the platform will also automate milestone-based tracking once Village Development Plans (VDPs) receive digital approval.
Under the Grants-in-Aid (GIA) component, the portal will function as a centralised management information system to monitor financial outlays, livelihood projects and funding allocations. It will also track the physical and financial progress of hostels under the educational institutions component, with a focus on improving transparency and reducing delays.
The PM-AJAY mobile application has been developed as a unified digital platform to extend the services of existing PMAGY and PM-AJAY portals to mobile users. The app will provide access to scheme information, monitoring, reporting and beneficiary-related services through a mobile interface.
The application supports Adarsh Gram, Grants-in-Aid and Hostel components through integrated monitoring, reporting, proposal management, inspections and beneficiary tracking features.
For the Adarsh Gram component, the app will allow offline door-to-door surveys and real-time generation of Village Development Plans based on 50 socio-economic indicators. In the Grants-in-Aid segment, it will enable digital beneficiary registration and real-time tracking of livelihood and skill training initiatives.
The hostel module will facilitate electronic submission of construction and repair proposals directly from project sites, while field inspectors will be able to upload geo-tagged and time-stamped photographs to verify infrastructure progress.
The ministry said the app includes features such as unified login systems, role-based access control, geo-tagging, dashboard reporting, mobile inspections, notifications and integration with existing portals.
The digital platforms are expected to improve efficiency, enhance transparency, strengthen field-level monitoring, speed up reporting and reduce dependence on desktop-based operations as part of the government’s push towards digital governance and inclusive development under the Viksit Bharat vision according to the Ministry.
