{"id":15756,"date":"2023-10-11T06:19:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T00:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15756"},"modified":"2025-04-03T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:07:07","slug":"baiga-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/baiga-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Baiga Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Baiga Tribe:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Baiga Tribe is one of the <strong>Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups<\/strong> (PVTGs).<\/li>\n<li>They reside in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Occupation:<\/strong> Traditionally, the Baiga lived a semi-nomadic life and practised slash-and-burn cultivation. Now, they are mainly dependent on minor forest produce for their livelihood.<\/li>\n<li>They practice a form of <strong>shifting cultivation called, &#8220;Bewar.&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mahua<\/strong> is an important aspect of <strong>Baiga&#8217;s food and drink<\/strong>. It is an intoxicant prepared from the fermentation and distillation of the flowers of the Mahua tree.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tattooing is<\/strong> an integral part of Baiga culture, every age and body part has a specific tattoo reserved for the occasion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are habitat rights?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Habitat rights recognition provides the community concerned rights over their <strong>customary territory of habitation<\/strong>, <strong>socio-cultural practices<\/strong>, economic and livelihood means, intellectual knowledge of biodiversity and ecology, traditional knowledge of use of natural resources, as well as protection and conservation of their natural and cultural heritage.<\/li>\n<li>These rights <strong>safeguard and promote traditional livelihood<\/strong> and ecological knowledge passed down through generations.<\/li>\n<li>They also help converge different government schemes and initiatives from various departments to empower PVTG communities to develop their habitats.<\/li>\n<li>These rights are given under section 3(1) (e) [rights including community tenures of habitat and habitation for primitive tribal groups and pre-agricultural communities] of <strong>The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006<\/strong> also known <strong>as the Forest Rights Act (FRA).\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: Who are Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups?<\/h3>\n<p>Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) is a term used in India to identify certain indigenous communities or tribes that are considered to be at a higher risk of vulnerability and marginalization due to their distinct cultural, social, and economic characteristics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-politics\/baiga-pvtg-habitat-rights-chhattisgarh-significance-8976933\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Baiga tribal group gets habitat rights in Chhattisgarh: What this means, significance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baiga Tribe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15756","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\/15756","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=15756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}