<span style="color: #222222;">Tribal Affairs Ministry has taken several immediate initiatives to re-energise the lagging economic activity for sustaining the livelihood development of tribals to ease the burden of the tribal artisans arising out of COVID pandemic. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Addressing a video conference to launch the TRIFED Digital Platforms, Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda said that the team of "TRIFED Warriors" will take Tribal Commerce based on forest produces, handlooms and handicrafts to a new high for transforming tribal lives and livelihoods. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He stated that with more and more people going online to meet their various needs, an important strategic push has been to adopt an all-encompassing digitisation drive to map and link its village based tribal producers to the national and international markets. This was the key focus area of a webinar organised by TRIFED today. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It was attended by over 200 participants. The main highlight was the launch of the TRIBES India products on the Government e-Marketplace  and TRIFED's new website.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Mr Munda opined that TRIFED plays a major role in connecting the tribals to the mainstream and congratulated the team for their initiatives being launched today. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He urged them to focus on extracting and utilising the wealth of information and knowledge that the tribal communities have, especially with regard to the jungle, and how that can be used to not just benefit their community but can also be of greater help to the country and people in these troubled times.</span><br />''