Tribal girls in remote Udaipur will soon have a dedicated ashram hostel, rural commuters a flood-resilient river crossing, and three blocks a brand-new all-weather road — all in a single foundation-laying push by the Chief Minister's Office of Rajasthan on Monday, 3 August 2026.

The Rajasthan government, under Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, laid the foundation stones for a cluster of infrastructure works in Udaipur district totalling approximately Rs 13.9 crore. The projects span education, connectivity, and rural roads — a deliberate bundling that reflects the state's push to close long-standing gaps in its tribal-majority southern belt.

Hostels at Khelgaon and Dabok for tribal students

The centrepiece of the education push is a Janjati Balika Ashram Chhatrawas (tribal girls' ashram hostel) at Khelgaon, Udaipur, and a Balak Ashram Chhatrawas (boys' hostel) at Dabok, together funded at Rs 5.5 crore. Tribal ashram hostels are state-run residential facilities that combine boarding with schooling, designed specifically to keep children from remote, forest-edge communities in continuous education rather than dropping out due to distance. For tribal girls in particular — who face compounded barriers of distance, safety, and social norms — a dedicated hostel can be the single factor that determines whether secondary education happens at all.

Submersible bridge on Banas River at Bomracha, Gogunda

At Rs 2 crore 70 lakh, a submersible culvert-bridge will be built on the Banas River at Bomracha village in Gogunda block. Submersible structures are engineered to allow floodwater to pass over them during monsoon peaks while remaining passable in dry months — a pragmatic solution for rivers in the Aravalli foothills that swing between trickle and torrent. For villages cut off every monsoon, this crossing restores access to markets, hospitals, and schools for months that currently go dark.

Atal Pragati Path roads for Kheroda, Jhadol, and Sayra

Three separate Atal Pragati Path roads — each budgeted at Rs 2 crore — will come up in Kheroda, Jhadol, and Sayra. The scheme, named after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, is the BJP-led state government's rural road branding under which all-weather connectivity is extended to habitations still dependent on kachcha tracks. All three blocks sit in the tribal interior of Udaipur division, where road access has historically been seasonal and unreliable.

The Rajasthan BJP government, in power since December 2023, has consistently directed infrastructure spending toward the tribal-majority blocks of Udaipur division, pairing education infrastructure with hard connectivity in the same announcement cycle. Whether these foundation stones translate to completed structures on time will be the real measure — and the one tribal communities in southern Rajasthan will be watching.