<span style="color: #222222;">In Kerala, the Union Minister of Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda today said that the Gram Panchayat Development Plan should be prepared in consultation with Women Self Help Groups and Farmer Producer Organisations for the holistic development of villages.<br />''<br />''The Minister was speaking at a meeting organised to review the progress of various schemes being implmented by the Tribal Affairs Ministry at the Kerala Institute of Local Administration at Attappady,  a tribal-dominated area in Palakkad district.<br />''<br />''He called for special focus to strengthen the implementation of the Prime Minister's Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups Development Mission.<br />''<br />''Noting that  tribals were neither migrants nor landless, he said the government was only technically giving them land ownership rights.<br />''He said the causes behind the rising infant mortality rates in Attappadi region must be looked into.<br />''<br />''Mr Munda also met tribal girl students from Nilambur and Attappady, undergoing training on Forest Rights Act of 2006 at the institute.</span><br />