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employment, education etc. experience great difficulty in obtaining ST
certificates from the state from which they have migrated. In order to remove
this difficulty, it has been decided that the prescribed authority of a state
government/union territory administration may issue a Scheduled Tribe
certificate to a person who migrated from another state, on the production of
the genuine certificate issued to his father/mother by the prescribed authority
of the state of the father/mother's origin except where the prescribed authority
feels that a detailed enquiry is necessary through the state of origin before issue
of the certificate. The certificate will be issued irrespective of whether the tribe
in question is scheduled or not in relation to the state/union territory to which
the person has migrated to.
National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) was set up with effect from
19th February, 2004 by amending Article 338 and inserting a new Article 338A
in the Constitution, through the Constitution (Eighty-ninth Amendment) Act,
2003. The Chairman and the Vice-Chairman of the Commission have been
conferred the rank of Union Cabinet Minister and Minister of State respectively,
while the members of the Commission have been given the rank of a Secretary
to the Government of India. The main duties of the Commission are to investigate
and monitor all matters relating to the safeguards provided for the scheduled
tribes and to evaluate the working of such safeguards; and to inquire into specific
complaints with respect to the deprivation of rights and safeguards of the
scheduled tribes. The Commission is vested with all the powers of a civil court
trying a suit while investigating any matter or inquiring into any complaint
relating to deprivation of rights and safeguards of the scheduled tribes.
Tribal Sub Plan
The present Tribal Sub Plan (TSP) strategy was initially developed by an Expert
Committee set up by the Ministry of Education and Social Welfare in 1972 for
rapid socio-economic development of tribal people and was adopted for the
first time in the Fifth Five Year Plan. The TSP strategy, with some modifications,
continues till this day and the salient features with respect to TSP for states, are:
The funds provided under the Tribal Sub Plan of the state have to be at least
equal in proportion to the ST population of each state or UT; tribals and tribal
areas of a state or union territories are given benefits under the TSP, in addition
to what percolates from the overall Plan of a state/UT; The Sub-Plan should; a)
identify the problems and need of tribal people and critical gaps in their
development; b) identify all available resources for TSP; c) prepare a broad
policy framework for development; e) define a suitable administrative strategy
for its implementation; and f) specify the mechanism for monitoring and
evaluation.
Ministry has issued revised guidelines for Inter-state allocation of funds
and implementation of programmes / activities under proviso to Article 275(1)
of the Constitution of India and under special central assistance to Tribal Sub