Bhubaneswar, March 31 -- A performance audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has flagged major lapses in welfare delivery for Odisha's most vulnerable tribal groups, revealing that over half of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) remain excluded from key schemes, while the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has failed to provide the mandated 100 days of work to 90% of households.

The report, tabled in the state assembly, highlights that despite hundreds of crores in expenditure, 54% of the PVTG population-approximately 1.60 lakh people-were left out of welfare coverage, as the Micro Project Agencies, the primary institutional mechanism for tribal upliftment, failed to extend basic serv...