Nishika Tandon, NMIMS Kirit P Mehta School of Law, Mumbai
ABSTRACT
With over 700 Scheduled Tribes spread across different States and Union Territories in this country, the tribes are recognised under Article 342 of the Constitution of India. Most of them can be found to be spread out in over more than one state. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the provisions of the Constitution of India with respect to the protection of these tribals. Several provisions have been created overtime in order to safeguard the interests and culture of the tribes while promoting their development and welfare through numerous constitutional provisions as well as policies and acts. However, as effective as these provisions can look on paper, practically the effectiveness of them has been looked at in this paper. The paper further tries to analyse whether these special provisions provided to the tribes serve as protective discrimination or tend to become demeaning to the tribal people.
Keywords: Fifth Schedule, Scheduled Tribes, Protective Discrimination, Scheduled Areas.
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