Rs 24,000 crore scheme for comprehensive development of 75 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) covering 22,000 villages. Provides housing, safe water, electricity, roads, mobile connectivity, and livelihood support.
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Tribal & Indigenous
8 policy documents tracked in this sector, plus 6 related analysis, announcements and news items
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Constitutional foundations
Full policy history →Where this sector's policy story begins — in the Constituent Assembly, 1946–1949.
Scheduled Areas and tribal administration
The Fifth and Sixth Schedules underpin today's tribal policy — PESA (1996) extending panchayats to Scheduled Areas, the Forest Rights Act 2006, and the continuing autonomy demands of Sixth Schedule councils in the Northeast and Ladakh. Read the debate →
Policy documents 8
Acts, rules, notifications, schemes and budgets in force
Established the Sammakka Sarakka Central Tribal University in Telangana for the educational empowerment of tribal communities. Named after Gond tribal icons Sammakka and Sarakka.
Comprehensive development programme for villages along the northern border including those in Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, and Ladakh. Provides infrastructure, livelihood, and tourism development to counter depopulation.
Central Act enacted 2021-03-28. Full text on India Code (indiacode.nic.in).
Central Act enacted 2007-12-20. Full text on India Code (indiacode.nic.in).
Recognises the rights of forest-dwelling tribal communities and other traditional forest dwellers to forest land and resources. Corrects historical injustice by vesting land and resource rights.
Central Act enacted 2006-12-29. Full text on India Code (indiacode.nic.in).
Central Act enacted 2000-12-27. Full text on India Code (indiacode.nic.in).
News coverage 6
Journalism about this sector — not policy documents
Vettivittakadu tribal hamlet’s long wait for basic amenities draws Keralam government’s intervention
Emergency treatment provided to ailing resident; steps under way to improve footpath and sanitation facilities, says Minister K.A. Thulasi
K. Hrahmo, who represents the Palak constituency, says the Uniform Civil Code could offer greater legal protection to Mizo women married to non-tribal men
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to entertain a plea challenging the 2018 amendment to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 which restored the bar on anticipatory bail and removed the requirement of a preliminary inquiry before registration of a first information report (FIR) under the Act.A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana did not agree with the petitioner's contention that the Act was l
Adivasi Dalit Munnetta Samithi president Sreeraman Koyyon alleges that the secrecy was intended to block discussions on corruption in the tribal rehabilitation area over the past decade
The delegation of National Commission for Scheduled Tribes also called on Tamil Nadu Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar at Lok Bhavan
The minister promised justice to the family.