DE-NOTIFIED TRIBES (DNT)

March 18, 2021

Minister of for Social Justice and Empowerment informed Rajya Sabha about initiatives for development of Nomadic Tribes.

About:

To promote the socio-economic development of De-notified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Communities, the Development and Welfare Board for De-notified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Communities (DWBDNCs) has been constituted on 21.02.2019 for a period of three years extendable up to 5 years.
In addition, the following schemes are being implemented by the Central Government through State Government/UT Administrations for the DNTs:-
- Ambedkar Pre-Matric and Post-Matric Scholarship for DNT Boys and Girls.
- Nanaji Deshmukh Scheme of Construction of Hostels for DNT Boys and Girls.
As per the Cabinet decision, a Committee under the Chairmanship of Vice Chairman NITI Aayog is in place, which has taken up the task of identification of DNT communities which are yet to be formally classified.
NITI Aayog has assigned the task of ethnographic survey of 62 tribes to the Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) to conduct the studies of these communities in different parts of the country.