UPSC Prelims 2014 Question:

Every year, a month-long ecologically important campaign/festival is held during which certain communities/tribes plant saplings of fruit-bearing trees.

Which of the following are such communities/tribes?

Explanation:

• Gond and Korku are the tribes of Madhya Pradesh. These tribes celebrate a month-long festival of greenery, during which the tribes plant saplings of fruit-bearing trees. The festival is known as Hari Jiroti.
  
  
• Bhutia and Lepcha are the indigenous tribes of Sikkim
  
  
• Irula and Toda tribes are indigenous to the western ghats region of Nilgiris.
  
  
• Saharia and Agariya tribes are indigenous to Madhya Pradesh
  
  

Therefore, option (2) is the correct answer.

Subject: Economics | Population and Demography