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The Ministry of Tribal Affairs has prepared a Draft National Policy for the tribal communities that seeks to accelerate the socio-economic development of Scheduled Tribes while at the same time maintaining their distinct culture. The policy lays stress on their socio-economic empowerment and documentation of rich traditional practices & wisdom enshrined in the tribal culture. The draft policy addresses the problems of poverty, health, sanitation, environmental hygiene, nutrition and displacement in tribal communities by appropriate measures and provides a strong and effective relief and rehabilitation system to ameliorate the misers of the tribal people. Also, the draft policy considers formal education as the key to all-round human development and attempts to address the problem of education among the ST populations with a view to suggest a number of remedial measures to ensure better education among the tribals.
The draft policy has been placed on the Ministry’s website www.tribal.nic.in for eliciting suggestions and views of People’s representatives, NGOs and Experts prior to finalising the tribal policy. The Ministry is organising four zonal seminars and one national seminar at different places to elicit their views/comments. One such regional seminar was organised at Shimla on 18-19 November, 2004.
An additional Draft National Policy paper for tribal communities has been prepared and circulated.
This information was given by Shri P.R. Kyndiah, Minister of Tribal Affairs to the question raised by Shri K. Chandran Pillai and Shri A. Vijayaraghavan in the Rajya Sabha.
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