ST

· communities which
§ Did not practice religion with a written text
§ Did not have sharp class divisions
§ Did not have state/political of the normal kind
§ Living in a geo isolated area marked by poverty, powerlesness, social stigma
§ Believed to be the people of forest
· A-15(4)
· A-16(4),(4A)
· A-19(5)-restriction of freedom of movement in tribal area
· A-40:- Reservation of seats in panchayat
· A-46:- state to promote the educational and economic interest of weaker section
· A-164:- appointment of special minster for tribal welfare for Odisha, CH, MP, JHK
· Article 330/332- reservation of seats in parliamnent/state legislature
· A-338A- NCST
· A 355-Claim of SC/ST shall be taken into consideration for governement jobs.
· V and VI schedule

· Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Nodal Ministry for overall policy planning and coordination of programmes for development of STs
· NCST - 338A of the constitution(89th CAA)
Rest other same function as of NCSC

· Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989

· Scheduled Tribe and other Traditional Forest dweller(Recognition of forest rights) Act,2006
§ Recognize and vest individual forest dweller with right to live in and cultivate forest land that was occupied before 13 Dec 2005
§ Grants community forest rights

· Tribal Sub plan - LP vidhyarthi
Same as SC Sub plan. Narendra Jadav task force has been constituted to see the operational difficulties of plan.


· Educational Empowerment - same as SC
· Economic Empowerment:-
§ National ST Finance and development corporation
§ TRIFED (Tribal Cooperative marketing development federation of India Ltd) for market development of forest produce. It now acts as a service provider, market developer, capacity builder.
o Tribal Panchsheel:-5 fundamental principles given by Nehru for Tribal developemnt:-
· develop them on their on own genius- non imposition of Alien values
· Right of land and forest should be protected
· Teams of tribals should be trained in the work of administration and development. introducing too many outsiders into tribal territory should be avoided.
· TribaI areas should not be over administered or overwhelmed with a multiplicity of schemes
· Results should be judged not by statistics or the amount of money spent, but by the human character that is evolved.