Constitution Section 339 — Control of the Union over the administration of Scheduled Areas and the welfare of Scheduled Tribes

Part XVI — SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO CERTAIN CLASSES

Constitutional

Summary

The President can appoint a commission at any time to report on how Scheduled Areas are administered and how Scheduled Tribes are faring. This must happen after ten years from when the Constitution started. The President can decide the commission’s members, powers, and rules, and add any needed details. The Union government can also give orders to a State about creating and carrying out plans that are important for the welfare of Scheduled Tribes in that State.

Official Text

(1) The President may at any time and shall, at the expiration of ten years from the commencement of this Constitution by order appoint a Commission to report on the administration of the Scheduled Areas and the welfare of the Scheduled Tribes in the States .The order may define the composition, powers and procedure of the Commission and may contain such incidental or ancillary provisions as the President may consider necessary or desirable.

(2) The executive power of the Union shall extend to the giving of directions to a State as to the drawing up and execution of schemes specified in the direction to be essential for the welfare of the Scheduled Tribes in the State.