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Tribal Affairs Amendment Bill 2024
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- Rajya Sabha passed the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order Amendment Bill, 2024 and Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Order Amendment Bill, 2024.
- It cleared the way for the addition of several new communities to the Scheduled Tribes list of Odisha.
- It also helps to inclusion of synonyms and phonetic variations of existing tribes in the ST lists of both Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.
- Among the additions were notably seven Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) (a subset of STs) - four in Odisha and three in Andhra Pradesh.
- In Odisha, the PVTG communities added are
- Pauri Bhuyan and Paudi Bhuyan as synonyms of the Bhuyan tribe;
- The Chuktia Bhunjia as a synonym of the Bhunjia tribe;
- The Bondo as a sub-tribe of the Bondo Poraja tribe; and
- The Mankidia as a synonym for the Mankirdia tribe.
- In Andhra Pradesh, the PVTG communities included were
- Bondo Porja and Khond Porja as synonyms of the Porja tribe and
- The Konda Savaras as a synonym for the Savaras tribe.
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