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In the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament, the government has passed four amendments to the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950, in either the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha. The order is a list of the communities that are deemed to be Scheduled Tribes (STs). In September, the Union Cabinet approved the decision to make changes in the Order.

ST status for Gonds in UP

On December 14, the Rajya Sabha passed the Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Orders (Second Amendment) Bill, 2022, in a voice vote. The Bill seeks to give the ST status to the Gond community in four districts of Uttar Pradesh and was introduced by Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda in the Rajya Sabha. The Lok Sabha had passed it in April.

The Bill will ensure the inclusion of the Gond community in the Scheduled Tribes list in the districts of Sant Kabir Nagar, Sant Ravidas Nagar, Kushinagar, and Chandauli.

Hattees (Himachal)

The Lok Sabha passed the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Third Amendment) Bill, 2022, on December 16 to include the Hattee community of Trans Giri area in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district in the Scheduled Tribes list.

Narikoravan and Kurivikkaran (Tamil Nadu)

The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Second Amendment) Bill, 2022, was also introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 9. The Lok Sabha passed it through a voice vote on December 15. The Bill includes the Narikoravan and Kurivikkaran communities in the list of Scheduled Tribes in Tamil Nadu.

Communities in Chhattisgarh

The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Fifth Amendment) Bill, 2022, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 9,. The Bill seeks to include the Dhanuhar, Dhanuwar, Kisan, Saunra, Saonra, and Binjhia communities in the ST list in Chhattisgarh and seeks to formalise Bhuinya, Bhuiyan, and Bhuyan as synonyms of the Bharia Bhumia community. It also includes three Devanagari versions of the name of the Pando community.

Tribal status to Betta-Kuruba community in Karnataka

Lok Sabha on December 19 passed a bill to include ‘Betta-Kuruba’ along with ‘Kadu Kuruba’ in the list of Scheduled Tribes in Karnataka. Piloting the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Fourth Amendment) Bill 2022, Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda said that it seeks to provide justice to the Betta-Kuruba community of Karnataka. The minister said that the community has only 5000 members living in Karnataka.

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