{"id":86043,"date":"2026-02-05T11:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=86043"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:36:50","slug":"denotified-nomadic-and-semi-nomadic-tribes-dnts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/denotified-nomadic-and-semi-nomadic-tribes-dnts\/","title":{"rendered":"Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes (DNTs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes (DNTs) Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Denotified tribes, nomadic tribes, and semi-nomadic tribes across the country are coming together to push for a \u201cseparate column\u201d for themselves in the 2027 Census.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes (DNTs)<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Denotified Tribes (DNTs) are those <\/span><b>communities <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which were <\/span><b>once notified under the Criminal Tribes Acts,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> enforced by the <\/span><b>British Raj between l871 and I947.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once a tribe becomes \u201cNotified\u201d as criminal, all its members were required to register with the local magistrates, failing which they would be charged with a \u2018crime\u2019 under the Indian Penal Code.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>After Independence,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> this <\/span><b>Act was repealed in 1952,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><b>communities were \u201cdenotified\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, hence the name.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>A few of these communities which<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were listed as denotified were also <\/span><b>nomadic<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nomadic tribes are the communities who usually do not have land and move from one place to another for livelihood.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The DNTs are among the <\/span><b>most neglected, marginalised, and economically deprived <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">communities, with most living a life of destitution.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Historically<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, these communities <\/span><b>never had access to private land or home ownership <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and used forests and grazing lands for their livelihood and residential use.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Status of DNTs in India<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In India, roughly <\/span><b>10 percent of the population<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are DNTs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><b>2014<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment constituted<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a <\/span><b>National Commission for De-notified, Nomadic, and Semi-Nomadic Tribes (NCDNT) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">under the <\/span><b>chairmanship of Bhiku Ramji Idate <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for a period of three years-\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>to prepare a state-wise list of castes <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">belonging to\u00a0 <\/span><b>DNTs <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to suggest appropriate measures in respect of Denotified and Nomadic Tribes that may be undertaken by the Central Government or the State Government.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NCDNT submitted its <\/span><b>report <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on 08.01.<\/span><b>2018<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>As per the report,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a total of <\/span><b>1235 communities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have been <\/span><b>identified as DNTs <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">across the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on the Commission\u2019s recommendations, the <\/span><b>ministry constituted<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>Development and Welfare Board for Denotified, Nomadic, and Semi-Nomadic Communities (DWBDNCs)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Board has been <\/span><b>mandated to formulate and implement welfare a<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nd development <\/span><b>programmes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for these communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Renke Commission (2008) was earlier commissioned<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to identify and <\/span><b>list the DNT communities.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Scheme for Economic Empowerment of DNTs (SEED)<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was launched by the <\/span><b>Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the welfare of DNT communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is being <\/span><b>implemented by DWBDNCs.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been formulated<\/span><b> for families having income <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from all sources of <\/span><b>Rs 2.50 lakh or less <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">per annum and not availing any such benefits from a similar scheme of the Centre or state government.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Aim<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: To provide<\/span><b> free competitive exam coaching, health insurance, housing assistance, and livelihood initiative<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s at the community level, and <\/span><b>financial assistance for construction of houses<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will be provided to the members of DNTs Communities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An amount of <\/span><b>200 crore<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been allocated for this scheme \u2014 to be spent over five years from<\/span><b> FY2021-22 to FY2025-26<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/denotified-nomadic-and-semi-nomadic-tribes-demand-separate-column-census-2027\/article70591623.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denotified Tribes (DNTs) are those communities which were once notified under the Criminal Tribes Acts, enforced by the British Raj between l871 and I947. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":86051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1980,1981,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-86043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-denotified","9":"tag-nomadic-and-semi-nomadic-tribes","10":"tag-prelims-pointers","11":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","12":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","13":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86043","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86043"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86134,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86043\/revisions\/86134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}