Scheduled Tribes

Scheduled Tribes, means certain tribes or tribal communities or groups within them in any State or Union Territory of India notified by the President in the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950 and the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1951 under Art. 342(1) of the Constitution of India, the President specifies a tribe under these Orders only on the basis of its being a tribe or tribal community, no non-tribal community can be converted into a tribal community for the purpose of this Order. [Constitution of India, Art. 342(1)]