{"id":15588,"date":"2023-10-07T07:46:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T02:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15588"},"modified":"2025-04-03T14:50:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T09:20:55","slug":"fifth-schedule-of-the-indian-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fifth-schedule-of-the-indian-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Schedule of the Indian Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Fifth Schedule of the Indian Constitution<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It deals with provisions related to the <strong>administration and control of Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes<\/strong> in any State<strong>, other than the States of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, and Mizoram.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These areas are <strong>treated differently from the other areas in the countrybecause they are inhabited by the aboriginals, <\/strong>who are socially and economically rather backward, and special efforts need to be made to improve their condition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Declaration of Scheduled Areas:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Article 244(1):<\/strong> The <strong>President of India<\/strong> is empowered to d<strong>eclare an area a Scheduled Area.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He <strong>can direct that the whole or any specified part of a Scheduled Area shall cease <\/strong>to be a Scheduled Area.<\/li>\n<li>The President <strong>can increase or decrease the area <\/strong>of any Scheduled Area in a State <strong>after consultation with the Governor<\/strong> of that State a<strong>nd also alter its boundary lines,<\/strong> but only by way of rectification of boundaries.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><u>The criteria followed for declaring<\/u><\/strong><u> an area as a Scheduled Area are<\/u><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>preponderance of the tribal population<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>compactness and reasonable <strong>size of the area;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>under-developed nature<\/strong> of the area; and<\/li>\n<li>marked <strong>disparity in economic standard<\/strong> of the people.<\/li>\n<li>These <strong>criteria are not spelt out in the Constitution<\/strong> of India but have become well established.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Special Provisions:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>executive power of a State extends to the Scheduled Ares<\/strong> therein.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Central Government can give directions to the State<\/strong> regarding the administration of such Areas.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Governor annually<\/strong>, or whenever required by the President, <strong>makes a report to the President<\/strong> regarding the administration of the Scheduled Areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Tribal Advisory Council (TAC):<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A TAC has to be <strong>established in each State<\/strong>, <strong>having Scheduled Areas<\/strong> to deal with the welfare and advancement of Scheduled tribes in states.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A similar council <strong>can be established in any State having Scheduled Tribes but not Scheduled Areas if the President directs<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It consists of <strong>not more than twenty members of whom, three-fourthsshall be the representatives of the Scheduled Tribes in the Legislative Assembly<\/strong> of the State.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>TAC shall advise on such matters <\/strong>pertaining t<strong>o<\/strong> the welfare and the advancement of the STs in the State <strong>as may be referred to them by the Governor.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Governor may make rules<\/strong> prescribing or <strong>regulating the number of members of the Council, the mode of their appointment<\/strong> and the appointment of the Chairman of the Council and of the officers and servants thereof, <strong>theconduct of its meetings, and its procedure in general.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Applicablity of Laws in Scheduled Areas:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Governormay<\/strong>, by public notification, <strong>direct that any particular Act of Parliament or of the Legislature <\/strong>of the State shall or <strong>shall not apply to a Scheduled Area <\/strong>or any part thereof in the State, <strong>subject to such exceptions<\/strong> and modifications as specified.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Governor may make regulations for the peace and good government<\/strong> of any area in the State, which is for the time being a SA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Such regulations may<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>prohibit or restrict the transfer of landby or among members of the Scheduled tribes<\/strong> in such area;<\/li>\n<li><strong>regulate the allotment of land<\/strong> to members of the STs in such area;<\/li>\n<li><strong>regulate the carrying on of business as money-lender <\/strong>by persons who lend money <strong>to members of the STs in such area.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In making such regulations, the Governor may repeal or amend any Act of Parliament or of Legislature<\/strong> of the State or any existing law <strong>after obtaining assent of the President.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What are Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs)?<\/h3>\n<p>They are considered the most disadvantaged and marginalized among the tribal communities. On the recommendation of the Dhebar Commission (1973), in 1975 Government of India created a sub-category called Primitive Tribal Groups (PTGs), later renamed as Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs). Now there are total of 75 PVTGs spread over 17 states and one Union Territory (UT).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livelaw.in\/supreme-court\/parliamentary-or-state-law-wouldnt-apply-to-scheduled-v-area-only-if-the-governor-notifies-so-supreme-court-239464#:~:text=The%20Court%20emphasized%20that%20Paragraph,with%20certain%20exceptions%20and%20modifications.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Parliamentary Or State Law Wouldn\u2019t Apply To Scheduled V Area Only If The Governor Notifies So: Supreme Court<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth Schedule of the Indian Constitution deals with provisions related to the administration and control of Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes in any State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}