MEASURES OF PROTECTION TO THE

TRIBALS
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AMIT KHAWAS
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
24/6/2020
 MEASURES OF PROTECTION TO THE TRIBALS
After independence, the Constituent Assembly appointed sub-
committee under the chairmanship of A.V. Thakkar, after
whose recommendation the development of tribal areas become
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an integral part of development of the Indian people as a whole.
The goals of tribal development should be follow the five fundamental
principles.
 Tribal people should be developed along the lives of their own wishes and

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imposition of anything on them should be avoided. Their traditional arts
and culture should be encouraged in every way.
 Tribal rights in land and forests should be respected

 A team of their own people should be trained to do the work of

administration and development
 The Tribals areas should not be over administered or they will be confused
with the multiple schemes.
 The results of these programmes should be judged not by statistics or the
amount of money spent but by the quality of human character that is
evolved.
Various solutions have been presented for effectively dealing
with the Tribal problems which have been approached from
three viewpoints as follows:
1. POLICY OF ISOLATION:
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The policy was given by Hutton and V. Elwin, who suggested that the tribals must
be kept at a distance from the rest of the society and allow the tribal people to live
their own life with happiness and freedom. They proposed a scheme of ‘national
park’ for the tribal.
The tribals would be in a position to maintain their independent identity
They would be free from the exploitation of outsiders. Those who support this
approach say that sufficient time must be given to the tribals to assimilate themselves
with the rest of the community.

Rajaji National Park Photo: A tribal Village

near to the National Park
 POLICY OF ASSIMILATION
 Assimilation is a process of adopting the ways of another culture and fully
becoming a part of a different society.
 Those who adopted this policy wanted the assimilation of tribals into the main
stream national life.
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 According to this approach we cannot deal with tribal problems only on the
basis of tribal culture and life but by changing them into a new community with
the rest of the people in India
 The limitation of this approach is that complete assimilation is a difficult task
because the tribals are not prepared to give up their traditional beliefs, practices
and ideas.

Picture shows the assimilation of two

cultures (force assimilation)
POLICY OF INTEGRATION:
 Integration means joining another society or becoming a part of
different groups without giving up their own ways.
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 Integration is based on equality where either the cultures or groups
are influencing each other. Thus integration is a two way process.
 . This policy of integration was supported by the thinkers like
Jawaharlal Nehru.
WELFARE PROGRAMMES FOR SCHEDULE TRIBES:
 The tribals are also the important citizens of India and hence
promotion of their welfare is of equal importance.
 The central and the state-government and various voluntary
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organisations have undertaken various steps in this regard.
Some of the tribal welfare measures are:

 Constitutional safeguards:
various provisions to safeguard the interest of the tribals have been made
such as;
1.Giving equal rights and opportunities to all citizens of India including the
tribal without any discrimination.

Article 14 says that state shall not deny to any person equality before the law
or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India.
Article 15 of the constitution states that no citizen of India shall be
discriminated on the basis of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth.
2. Giving reservation in employment and in the legislature for the
tribals

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Article 335 Claims of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to services
and posts.

•Article 330 Reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled

Tribes in the House of the People.
•Article 332, Reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
Tribes in the Legislative Assemblies of the States.
3. Giving tribal right to own property in any part of the country.
4. Protecting the economic and educational interests of the tribals
 Article 46, Promotion of Educational and Economic interests of Scheduled
Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other weaker sections.

Special Central Assistance:

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 The Tribal sub-plans (TSP) evolved for the tribal development
projects during the fifth five year plan (1974-79) and today cover 22
states and two union territories and about 38 million tribal
populations. The specific objectives set forth under the tribal sub-
plan strategy were:
 Raising production in the field of agriculture, small industries,
horticulture, and animal husbandry
 Elimination of exploitation of tribals in money lending, bondage, use
of forests, liquor vending etc.
 Development of education and training programmes
 Development of tribal areas
 upgrading of environment of tribal areas
Economic programmes and facilities:
Various projects have been undertaken to improve their economic positions such as
a) Development through Five Year Plan

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b) To loosen the grip of the moneylenders and the mahajans on the tribals, the
government organized Large Multi-Purpose Societies (LAMPS) in tribal areas for
giving loans to purchase the necessities of life. These societies supplied the tribals
with improved seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, etc. by giving relief to the tribals from
exploitation of middle-men, contractors, and money lenders.
c) The 20 point programme, too, focused attention on the development of schedule
tribes, including assisting the tribal families economically to enable them to cross
the poverty line.
d) Vocational training in tribal areas which aims at developing skills of tribal youth
in order to gain employment or self –employment.
e) Giving encouragement to crafts and home industries.
f) Making agriculture stable by persuading the tribals to give up shifting
cultivation and to settle permanently in a place by making agriculture their
occupation.
Educational facilities:
 The importance of education as an agency of modernization
as well as a source of employment has long been realised in

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our national plans for tribal welfare.
 A greater proportion of the grant both from state and central
sectors have been invested in imparting education at primary,
pre-matric, and post-matric levels.
 However, the wastage and drop-outs in tribal education have
been equally stupendous.
 Schools are established in tribal areas where education up to
10th standards has been made completely free for them.
 There are Ashrama schools for providing basic education and
vocational training for ST.
 20% of the seat are reserved in education and relaxation is
made for them in respect of age-limit and qualifying marks.
MEDICAL FACILITIES:

Running of Health Care Institutions: The Scheduled Tribes Development Department

is running Allopathic outpatient clinics in the remote scheduled tribe areas. Ambulance
services and medical camps are also being conducted through these Out Patient Clinics.
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Medical Assistance through Hospitals: The, intention of the scheme is to provide
medical care to Scheduled Tribes people through selected hospital in the state. Under the
scheme treatment assistance is provided to tribal people affected by various diseases
through approved hospitals in the state. The allotted amount is used for providing/
purchase of medicines.
Tribal Relief Fund: The scheme is intended to provide financial assistance to the ST
population affected by various diseases and natural calamity. Financial assistance is
given to the Scheduled Tribes who are below poverty line and who suffer from various
diseases including major diseases like cancer, heart/kidney/brain ailments etc.
Janani-JanmaRaksha: The nutritional issues of mother and child due to inadequate
pre and post maternal care. The scheme is envisaged for extending timely assistance
1000 per month for 18 months beginning from third month of the pregnancy to the
month in which the child attains one year. Payment is made through bank account.
Mobile medical unit and primary health care centres are established all over the tribal
areas with well medical facilities and medical professionals.
Role of voluntary organisation:
 Tribal welfare is not the only concern of government alone.
 Private organisation and individuals interested in the tasks of tribal upliftment
must also be given encouragement in this regard.

Tribals and the Forest: 

Regulation of 1952, allows the local tribes certain concessions to use the forest.
These concessions are:
1. Right to take water for agricultural purposes.
2. Digging of wells or canals for agricultural purposes.
3. Free grazing in open forests (under passes).
4. Removal of stones and earth for domestic or agricultural use.
5. Removal of timbers/bamboos/reeds/canes, etc., for construction and
repairs of houses and for agricultural implements.
6. Collection and removal of head load of dead wood for domestic use.
7. Fishing and hunting excluding the protected fauna.
8. Shifting cultivation.
9. Collection of minor forest produces for domestic consumption and for sale
 
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