Constitution Section 342 — Scheduled Tribes

Part XVI — SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO CERTAIN CLASSES

Constitutional

Summary

The President can identify which tribes or tribal communities, or parts of them, will be considered Scheduled Tribes for a particular state or union territory. Before doing this for a state, the President must consult the state's Governor. The President announces this decision through a public notice. Only Parliament can later change this list by adding or removing any tribe or group through a law. No other notification can alter the list once it is issued.

Official Text

(1) The President may with respect to any State or Union territory, and where it is a State , after consultation with the Governor thereof, by public notification, specify the tribes or tribal communities or parts of or groups within tribes or tribal communities which shall for the purposes of this Constitution be deemed to be Scheduled Tribes in relation to that State or Union territory, as the case may be.

(2) Parliament may by law include in or exclude from the list of Scheduled Tribes specified in a notification issued under clause (1) any tribe or tribal community or part of or group within any tribe or tribal community, but save as aforesaid a notification issued under the said clause shall not be varied by any subsequent notification.