{"id":33929,"date":"2022-12-15T10:17:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T04:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=33929"},"modified":"2025-04-20T02:55:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T21:25:54","slug":"st-status-extended-to-gond-community-in-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/st-status-extended-to-gond-community-in-up\/","title":{"rendered":"ST status extended to Gond community in UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Process of granting ST tag in India<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>About Gond people<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Rajya Sabha recently passed the Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Orders (2nd Amendment) Bill-2022, which seeks to give the ST status to the Gond community in 4 districts (Sant Kabir Nagar, Sant Ravidas Nagar, Kushinagar and Chandauli) of UP.<\/li>\n<li>The demand for inclusion of the Gond community in the ST list was first raised in the 1980s.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the process of granting ST tag in India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Constitutional provision: <\/strong>Article 342 of the Indian Constitution &#8211;\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The President<\/strong> may with respect to any State\/UT and where it is a State after consultation with the Governor, may notify the STs in relation to that State\/UT.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Parliament<\/strong> may by law include or exclude from the list of STs specified in a notification issued.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The process:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It begins at the State or UT level<\/strong>, with the concerned government seeking the addition or exclusion of a particular community from the SC\/ST list.\n<ul>\n<li>Following this, the proposal is sent to the <strong>Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs<\/strong>, which sends it to the <strong>Registrar General of India<\/strong> (RGI), after examination.<\/li>\n<li>Once approved by the RGI, the proposal is sent to the <strong>National Commission for Scheduled Tribes <\/strong>(NCST), following which the proposal is sent back to the Union government, which introduces it (after inter-ministerial deliberations) in the Cabinet for final approval.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The final decision rests with the President\u2019s office<\/strong> issuing a notification specifying the changes under powers vested in it from Articles 341 (for SC) and 342.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The inclusion or exclusion<\/strong> of any community in the ST\/SC list come into effect <strong>only after the President assents<\/strong> to a Bill that amends the Constitution (STs) Order, 1950, after it is passed by both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Criteria to begin the process:<\/strong> To establish whether a community is a ST, the government looks at several criteria, including its &#8211;\n<ul>\n<li>Ethnological traits,<\/li>\n<li>Traditional characteristics,<\/li>\n<li>Distinctive culture,<\/li>\n<li>Geographical isolation and<\/li>\n<li>Backwardness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>How many STs are there officially?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>According to the Census 2011, STs constitute <strong>6%<\/strong> (over 10 crore) of the population and there are 705 ethnic groups listed as STs under Article 342.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About Gondi\/Gond\/Koitur People:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/Ryp7FJ0qsoiXhCrJ0been-DzEdrwJw3Nvg1L8EIceEmiGq3eLmv4Jbi9rB-9hV_iH06AG3MqY515Qcebh-QqDYJr1CNHs5oDJrWRuJlojQN0deVMEAAylfVkrq1fZufJwEKoeFmEOy455yHBgJDnsg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image Caption: About Gond Tribe<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the largest tribal groups in India, Gonds are a Dravidian ethno-linguistic group.<\/li>\n<li>They are spread across many states of India \u2013 Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>The Gond have formed many kingdoms of historical significance and are listed as a <strong>ST <\/strong>for the purpose of India&#8217;s system of reservation.<\/li>\n<li>The 2011 Census of India recorded about 2.98 million Gondi (related to the Telugu) speakers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) Which Indian state has the highest population of schedule tribe?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Madhya Pradesh has the highest population of scheduled tribe in India.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2) Which states in India have no schedule tribe?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Delhi NCR, Punjab, Haryana, Puducherry and Chandigarh do not have any notified Scheduled Tribe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/rs-passes-bill-to-extend-st-status-to-gond-community-in-four-dists-of-up-8325029\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rajya Sabha passes Bill to extend ST status to Gond community in four dists of UP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajya Sabha recently passed the bill which seeks to give the ST status to the Gond community in 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