Lok Sabha Question No. 2185 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-03-08
Subject: Inclusion of Valmiki Boya in ST List
Ministry: TRIBAL AFFAIRS
Asked by: Talari Rangaiah

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (MINISTRY OF TRIBAL AFFAIRS)

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED No . 2185

TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.03.2021

## INCLUSION OF VALMIKI BOYA IN ST LIST

2185. SHRI TALARI RANGAIAH:

Will the Minister of TRIBAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether the Government is aware that 94 per cent of the States and UTs of India include Valmiki's into the list of either SCs or STs except in non-agency areas of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana;
- (b)  if so, the details thereof;
- (c)  whether this kind of treatment towards Valmiki Boya Community is completely deplorable and discriminatory in nature and amounts to the violation of Article - 14 of the Indian Constitution;
- (d)  whether  the  Government  has  made  any  efforts  to  provide  SC  status  to  the Valmiki  Boya  Community  who  are  extremely  backward  in  each  and  every aspect of life since independence; and
- (e)  if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE FOR TRIBAL AFFAIRS (SMT. RENUKA SINGH SARUTA)

- (a)  &  (b)  :Balmiki/  Valmiki/Valamiki  has  been  notified  as  Scheduled  Castes  or Scheduled Tribes in respect of following States and Union Territories :-

| A.As Scheduled Caste   | A.As Scheduled Caste   | A.As Scheduled Caste            |
|------------------------|------------------------|---------------------------------|
| Sl.                    | State/ Union Territory | Name of community               |
| 1                      | Gujarat                | Balmiki (Sl. No. 5)             |
| 2                      | Haryana                | Balmiki (Sl. No. 2)             |
| 3                      | Himachal Pradesh       | Balmiki (Sl. No. 3)             |
| 4                      | Karnataka              | Balmiki (Sl. No. 21)            |
| 5                      | Madhya Pradesh         | Balmiki (Sl. No. 11)            |
| 6                      | Maharashtra            | Balmiki (Sl. No. 12)            |
| 7                      | Odisha                 | Valamiki, Valmiki (Sl. No. 93 ) |
| 8                      | Punjab                 | Balmiki (Sl. No. 2)             |
| 9                      | Rajasthan              | Balmiki, Valmiki (Sl. No. 14)   |
| 10                     | Uttar Pradesh          | Balmiki (Sl. No. 11)            |
| 11                     | West Bengal            | Balmiki (Sl. No. 22)            |
| 12                     | Uttarakhand            | Balmiki (Sl. No. 11)            |
| 13                     | Chhattisgarh           | Balmiki (Sl. No. 11)            |

| 14                     | Delhi                  | Chura (Balmiki) (Sl. No. 12)                                                                                                  |
|------------------------|------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 15                     | Chandigarh             | Balmiki (Sl. No. 7)                                                                                                           |
| 16                     | Jammu Kashmir          | Balmiki (Sl. No. 5)                                                                                                           |
| 17                     | Ladakh                 | Balmiki (Sl. No. 5)                                                                                                           |
| B. As Scheduled Tribes | B. As Scheduled Tribes | B. As Scheduled Tribes                                                                                                        |
| 18                     | Andhra Pradesh         | Valmiki (Sl. No. 30) (Scheduled Areas of Vishakhapatnam, Srikakulam, Vijayanagram, East Godavari and West Godavari districts) |
| 19                     | Karnataka              | Valmiki (Sl. No.38)                                                                                                           |

(c)  to  (e)  :  Government  has  laid  down  modalities,  for  deciding  claims  for inclusion  in,  exclusion  from  and  other  modifications  in  the  list  of  Scheduled Castes  and  Scheduled  Tribes.  The  said  modalities  envisages  that  complete proposal  with  ethnographic  support  to  modify  the  existing  list  of  Scheduled Castes  is  to  be  initiated  by  the  concerned  State  Government/  Union  territory Administration. As per approved modalities, there is no proposal for inclusion of Valmiki  Boya  community  in  the  list  of  Scheduled  Castes  from  any  State Government/ Union Territory Administration.

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