Lok Sabha Question No. 2087 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-03-08
Subject: Number of Tribals in the Country
Ministry: TRIBAL AFFAIRS
Asked by: Mohanbhai Kalyanji Kundariya

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF TRIBAL AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO† 2087 TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.03.2021

## NUMBER OF TRIBALS IN THE COUNTRY

†2087. SHRI MOHANBHAI KALYANJI KUNDARIYA :

Will the Minister of TRIBAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the tribal population (in crores) in the entire country at present, Statewise and UT-wise;
- (b) the number of schemes introduced by the Government for tribals during the last 7 years in addition to the schemes implemented earlier;
- (c) the details of beneficiaries of the schemes, State/ UT-wise;
- (d) whether the Government has digitized any tribal language; and
- (e) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

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

- (a): State/Union Territory wise population of Scheduled Tribes in India as per census, 2011 is given at Annexure-I.

(b) & (c): Details of the schemes introduced by Ministry of Tribal Affairs during the last seven years are as given below:

Government of India launched 'Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana (VKY)' during 2014-15 for  holistic  development  of  tribal  people  across  the  country.  Since  2016-17,  separate allocation of funds under VKY has been discontinued as the fund requirement under the VKY strategy  was  envisaged  to  be  met  out  of  the  funds  available  under  the  various schemes of Central Government and State Government. The beneficiary details of VKY is not centrally maintained. VKY was launched in addition to earlier scheme of Special Central Assistance to Tribal Sub-Scheme (SCA to TSS).

During the year 2013-14, Scheme titled 'Mechanism for Marketing of Minor Forest Produce (MFP) through Minimum Support Price (MSP) and Development of Value Chain for MFP' was introduced by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs to provide much needed safety net  and  support  to  people  belonging  to  Scheduled  Tribes  and  other  traditional  forest dwellers whose livelihood depends on collection and selling of MFP. Van Dhan Vikas Karyakram (VDVK) is primarily the training and development of value chain component under the scheme. Van Dhan Vikas Karyakram is an initiative targeting livelihood generation for tribal population by harnessing the wealth of forest i.e. Van Dhan.

Introduced in the year 1997-98, Eklavya Model Residential School (EMRS) was a component  under  'Grants  under  Article  275(1)  of  the  Constitution'.  As  per  Budget announcement 2018-19, EMRS programme was revamped during the year 2018 and it was made a separate Central Sector Scheme.

Further, as informed by Government of Andhra Pradesh the details of schemes introduced during the last seven years are given at Annexure - II .

State/UT wise details of beneficiaries of the schemes/programmes of Ministry of Tribal Affairs are given at Annexure-III .

(d)  &  (e)  :   Ministry  of  Tribal  Affairs  provide  the  funds  to  Tribal  Research  Institutes (TRIs)  under the Scheme 'Support to TRIs' for various activities including construction of museum, library, research works, seminar/workshop, publication of books, development  of  documentaries,  organisation  of  tribal  festivals  including  language primers.

Further, under the component 'Financial Assistance for support to Centres of Excellence' of the scheme "Tribal Festival, Research, information and Mass Education", financial  assistance  is  provided  to reputed  Institutions  for  carrying  out research  study programmes including documentation  of  tribal  languages.  In  this  regard,  Ministry  has sanctioned  projects  to  Bhasha  Research  and  Publication  Centre  during  2018-19  and 2019-20  which inter-alia covered activity of identification and documentation of threatened/dying languages. The organization has carried out documentation of Korku, Nihali, Kolami, Vadi, Halpati, Dungra Bhili, Dhavadi, Dhatti, Thali, Nahal and Seheriya languages.

Government of Andhra Pradesh has informed that 'Tribal Cultural Research and Training Mission (AP TRI)' with the financial support of Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA), Government of India, New Delhi has developed Primers in 6 Tribal Languages such as Savara, Koda, Kuvi, Adivasi Oriya, Koya and Sugali for classes first and second initially at primary level in the academic year 2020-21 and for Classes third and fourth will be done in 2021-2022 as per the Government new curriculum and syllabus.These Primers are digitalized and will be placed in public domain by end of March, 2021.

Government of Himachal Pradesh has informed that 'Kinnauri (pahari)' of Scheduled district of Kinnaur has been digitized  and project on "Documentation of 'Kinnauri (pahari)' dialect and development of Artificial Intelligence based translation system to translate text from English to 'Kinnauri (pahari)' " is under process.

## referred to in reply to part (a) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2087 for 08.03.2021 regarding 'Number of Tribals in the Country' State / UT wise Scheduled Tribe population

| S. No   | India / State /UT                    | ST Population (in crore)   |
|---------|--------------------------------------|----------------------------|
|         | India                                | 10.4546                    |
| 1       | Andhra Pradesh                       | 0.2631                     |
| 2       | Arunachal Pradesh                    | 0.0952                     |
| 3       | Assam                                | 0.3884                     |
| 4       | Bihar                                | 0.1337                     |
| 5       | Chhattisgarh                         | 0.7823                     |
| 6       | Goa                                  | 0.0149                     |
| 7       | Gujarat                              | 0.8917                     |
| 8       | Haryana                              | NST                        |
| 9       | Himachal Pradesh                     | 0.0392                     |
| 10      | Jammu & Kashmir (UT)                 | 0.1275                     |
| 11      | Jharkhand                            | 0.8645                     |
| 12      | Karnataka                            | 0.4249                     |
| 13      | Kerala                               | 0.0485                     |
| 14      | Ladakh (UT)                          | 0.0218                     |
| 15      | Madhya Pradesh                       | 1.5317                     |
| 16      | Maharashtra                          | 1.0510                     |
| 17      | Manipur                              | 0.1167                     |
| 18      | Meghalaya                            | 0.2556                     |
| 19      | Mizoram                              | 0.1036                     |
| 20      | Nagaland                             | 0.1711                     |
| 21      | Odisha                               | 0.9591                     |
| 22      | Punjab                               | NST                        |
| 23      | Rajasthan                            | 0.9239                     |
| 24      | Sikkim                               | 0.0206                     |
| 25      | Tamil Nadu                           | 0.0795                     |
| 26      | Telangana                            | 0.3287                     |
| 27      | Tripura                              | 0.1167                     |
| 28      | Uttarakhand                          | 0.0292                     |
| 29      | Uttar Pradesh                        | 0.1134                     |
| 30      | West Bengal                          | 0.5297                     |
| 31      | A & N Islands                        | 0.0029                     |
| 32      | Chandigarh                           | NST                        |
| 33      | Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli | 0.0194                     |
| 34      | Delhi                                | NST                        |
| 35      | Lakshadweep                          | 0.0061                     |
| 36      | Puducherry                           | NST                        |

NST: No notified Scheduled Tribe (as in census 2011)

referred to in reply to part (b) & (c) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2087 for 08.03.2021 regarding 'Number of Tribals in the Country' List of schemes for Scheduled Tribes (STs) with year of introduction along with status and progress of current financial year by Government of Andhra Pradesh

| S.No   | Name of the Scheme                              | Year of   | Current year Progress                     | Current year Progress                     |
|--------|-------------------------------------------------|-----------|-------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|
|        |                                                 | Starting  | Unit                                      | No.                                       |
| 1      | Reimbursement of Electricity Charges            | 2015-16   | No                                        | 4,78,206                                  |
| 2      | Rejuvenation of Coffee Plantation               | 2015-16   | No.                                       | 19,430                                    |
| 3      | YSR Vidyonnathi                                 | 2015-16   | Scheme closed from 2020-21                | Scheme closed from 2020-21                |
| 4      | Giriputrika Kalyana Pathakam                    | 2015-16   | Registrations are stopped during 2020- 21 | Registrations are stopped during 2020- 21 |
| 5      | Food Basket Scheme                              | 2018-19   | Scheme closed from 2020-21                | Scheme closed from 2020-21                |
| 6      | Land Purchase                                   | 2018-19   | Scheme is not active                      | Scheme is not active                      |
| 7      | YSR Pension Kanuka                              | 2019-20   | No.                                       | 3,58,185                                  |
| 8      | Pensions to Old age Persons and widows          | 2019-20   | No.                                       | 3,21,089                                  |
| 9      | Pension to single women                         | 2019-20   | No.                                       | 7575                                      |
| 10     | Pension to AIDs patients                        | 2019-20   | No.                                       |                                           |
| 11     | Pensions to CKDU Dialysis Patients              | 2019-20   | No                                        | 371                                       |
| 12     | Pensions to Disabled Persons                    | 2019-20   | No.                                       | 24,836                                    |
| 13     | Pensions to Fisher man                          | 2019-20   | No.                                       | 1,441                                     |
| 14     | Pensions to toddy tappers                       | 2019-20   | No.                                       | 115                                       |
| 15     | YSR Aasara-Loans to Women Cooperative Societies | 2019-20   | No.                                       | 29,843                                    |
| 16     | YSR Cheyuta                                     | 2019-20   | No.                                       | 1,28,164                                  |
| 17     | YSR Vahana Mitra                                | 2019-20   | No.                                       | 10,027                                    |
| 18     | YSR Jagananna Chedodu                           | 2019-20   | No.                                       | 3,464                                     |
| 19     | YSR Nethanna Nestham                            | 2019-20   | No.                                       | 235                                       |
| 20     | YSR Matsyakara Bharosa                          | 2019-20   | No.                                       | 292                                       |
| 21     | Financial Assistance to Hawkers                 | 2019-20   | No.                                       | 5,000                                     |
| 22     | Amma Vodi                                       | 2019-20   | No.                                       | 2,75,122                                  |
| 23     | Fee Reimbursement Jagananna Vidya Deevena(RTF)  | 2019-20   | No.                                       | 76,595                                    |
| 24     | Jagananna vasathi deevena(MTF)                  | 2019-20   | No.                                       | 54,287                                    |
| 25     | Law Nestham                                     | 2019-20   | No.                                       | 315                                       |
| 26     | YSR Rythu Bharosa                               | 2019-20   | No.                                       | 1,47,302                                  |

Annexure-III referred to in reply to part (b) & (c) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2087 for 08.03.2021 regarding 'Number of Tribals in the Country' Model

State-wise list of Students Enrolled under the scheme  'Eklavya Residential School (EMRS)' during the last two years

| Sl. No   | State/ UT         | Students Enrolled in EMRSs during the year   | Students Enrolled in EMRSs during the year   |
|----------|-------------------|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|
| Sl. No   | State/ UT         | 2018-19                                      | 2019-20                                      |
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh    | 2800                                         | 3424                                         |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh | 240                                          | 208                                          |
| 3        | Assam             | -                                            | 480                                          |
| 4        | Chhattisgarh      | 6780                                         | 7961                                         |
| 5        | Gujarat           | 10172                                        | 10156                                        |
| 6        | Himachal Pradesh  | 210                                          | 312                                          |
| 7        | Jharkhand         | 2829                                         | 3558                                         |
| 8        | Karnataka         | 2879                                         | 3053                                         |
| 9        | Kerala            | 600                                          | 535                                          |
| 10       | Madhya Pradesh    | 10270                                        | 12946                                        |
| 11       | Maharashtra       | 4103                                         | 5067                                         |
| 12       | Manipur           | 1170                                         | 1440                                         |
| 13       | Mizoram           | 400                                          | 396                                          |
| 14       | Nagaland          | 583                                          | 619                                          |
| 15       | Odisha            | 5340                                         | 5821                                         |
| 16       | Rajasthan         | 5350                                         | 4947                                         |
| 17       | Sikkim            | 915                                          | 979                                          |
| 18       | Tamil Nadu        | 1553                                         | 2186                                         |
| 19       | Telangana         | 4160                                         | 3960                                         |
| 20       | Tripura           | 1680                                         | 1740                                         |
| 21       | Uttar Pradesh     | 630                                          | 473                                          |
| 22       | Uttarakhand       | 279                                          | 393                                          |
| 23       | West Bengal       | 2662                                         | 2737                                         |

State wise no. of beneficiaries covered under the scheme 'Grant-in-aid to voluntary organizations working for welfare of STs'

|   S. No. | State/UT             | 2018-19 No. of Beneficiaries   | 2019-20 No. of Beneficiaries   |
|----------|----------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh       | 19966                          | 26906                          |
|        2 | Arunachal Pradesh    | 93022                          | 209365                         |
|        3 | Assam                | 97368                          | 53258                          |
|        4 | Chhattisgarh         | 11571                          | 4562                           |
|        5 | Gujarat              | 178687                         | 160130                         |
|        6 | Himachal Pradesh     | 2462                           | 2117                           |
|        7 | Jharkhand            | 684382                         | 503826                         |
|        8 | Jammu & Kashmir (UT) | 100                            | 366                            |
|        9 | Karnataka            | 179259                         | 98994                          |
|       10 | Kerala               | 62259                          | -                              |
|       11 | Madhya Pradesh       | 2586                           | 1344                           |
|       12 | Maharashtra          | 2550                           | 12441                          |
|       13 | Manipur              | 4191                           | 5969                           |
|       14 | Meghalaya            | 182650                         | 183368                         |
|       15 | Mizoram              | 8402                           | 5502                           |
|       16 | Nagaland             | 143                            | -                              |
|       17 | Orissa               | 165698                         | 113876                         |
|       18 | Rajasthan            | 1104                           | 779                            |
|       19 | Sikkim               | 617                            | 412                            |
|       20 | Tamilnadu            | 482619                         | 194619                         |
|       21 | Telangana            | 400                            | 91                             |
|       22 | Tripura              | 400                            | 400                            |
|       23 | Uttrakhand           | 1005                           | 1071                           |
|       24 | Uttar Pradesh        | -                              | 95                             |
|       25 | West Bengal          | 197249                         | 141774                         |
|       26 | Delhi                | 50                             | -                              |

## State wise no. of beneficiaries covered in scheme 'Strengthening education among scheduled tribe girls in low literacy districts'.

|   S. NO. | Name of the State   | 2018-19   | 2019-20   |
|----------|---------------------|-----------|-----------|
|        1 | Arunachal Pradesh   | -         | -         |
|        2 | Chhattisgarh        | 384       | 576       |
|        3 | Gujarat             | 399       | 300       |
|        4 | Jharkhand           | 150       | 200       |
|        5 | Madhya Pradesh      | 3075      | 3237      |
|        6 | Maharashtra         | 907       | 1265      |
|        7 | Orissa              | 4810      | 3677      |
|        8 | Rajasthan           | 634       | 770       |
|        9 | Telangana           | -         | -         |

State-wise no. of beneficiaries under the scheme 'Pre-Matric scholarship for ST students'

| S.No.           | State/UT          |   Beneficiaries 2018-19 | Beneficiaries 2019-20   |
|-----------------|-------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
| 1               | Andaman & Nicobar |                     222 | 249                     |
| Andhra          | Pradesh           |                       0 | 2 28124                 |
| Assam           |                   |                   12933 | 3 2869                  |
|                 | Bihar             |                   46096 | 4 46096                 |
|                 | Chhattisgarh      |                  194413 | 5 143986                |
| Dadar & Nagar   | Haveli            |                    4399 | 6 5044                  |
| Daman &         | Diu               |                     332 | 7 262                   |
|                 | Goa               |                    3582 | 8 3332                  |
| Gujarat         |                   |                       0 | 9 0                     |
|                 | Himachal Pradesh  |                    3494 | 10 2709                 |
| Jammu & Kashmir | (UT)              |                   25920 | 11 0                    |
|                 | Jharkhand         |                  119877 | 12 106761               |
| 13              | Karnataka         |                   62126 | 87364                   |
| 14              | Kerala            |                   12121 | 7858                    |
| 15              | Ladakh            |                       0 | 0                       |
| 16              | Madhya Pradesh    |                  359092 | 318870                  |
| 17              | Manipur           |                   21006 | 24760                   |
| 18              | Mizoram           |                   14880 | 16890                   |
| 19              | Nagaland          |                       0 | 2000                    |
| 20              | Odisha            |                  204916 | 219875                  |
| 21              | Rajasthan         |                  136915 | 184163                  |
| 22              | Sikkim            |                     247 | 415                     |
| 23              | Tamil Nadu        |                   12800 | 13423                   |
| 24              | Telangana         |                     354 | 5570                    |
| 25              | Tripura           |                   12353 | 10980                   |
| 26              | Uttrakhand        |                    2572 | 2829                    |
| 27              | West Bengal       |                   33870 | 36962                   |

## State-wise no. of beneficiaries under the scheme 'Post-Matric scholarship for ST students'

| S. No.               |   State/UT |   Beneficiaries 2018-19 |   Beneficiaries 2019-20 |
|----------------------|------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
| Andaman and Nicobar  |        544 |                     447 |                       1 |
| Andhra Pradesh       |      71687 |                  158195 |                       2 |
| Arunachal Pradesh    |      18863 |                   20500 |                       3 |
| Assam                |      26867 |                   25163 |                       4 |
| Bihar                |       9950 |                   13938 |                       5 |
| Chhattisgarh         |     143320 |                  144453 |                       6 |
| Dadar & Nagar Haveli |          0 |                    2327 |                       7 |
| Daman & Diu          |        196 |                     351 |                       8 |

| 9                   | Goa    | 4442   |   5870 |
|---------------------|--------|--------|--------|
| Gujarat             | 214605 | 202667 |     10 |
| Himachal Pradesh    | 10747  | 3774   |     11 |
| Jammu & Kashmir(UT) | 16905  | 0      |     12 |
| Jharkhand           | 73385  | 79823  |     13 |
| Karnataka           | 101059 | 118083 |     14 |
| Kerala              | 16111  | 16583  |     15 |
| Ladakh (UT)         | 0      | 0      |     16 |
| Madhya Pradesh      | 272714 | 244126 |     17 |
| Maharashtra         | 147262 | 139550 |     18 |
| Manipur             | 59661  | 57773  |     19 |
| Meghalaya           | 35305  | 0      |     20 |
| Mizoram             | 51983  | 44311  |     21 |
| Nagaland            | 28949  | 40164  |     22 |
| Odisha              | 185888 | 171532 |     23 |
| Puducherry          | -      | -      |     24 |
| Rajasthan           | 135523 | 286652 |     25 |
| Sikkim              | 2962   | 5159   |     26 |
| Tamil Nadu          | 21605  | 0      |     27 |
| Telangana           | 153845 | 130007 |     28 |
| Tripura             | 23020  | 23720  |     29 |
| Uttar Pradesh       | 2779   | 0      |     30 |
| West Bengal         | 90395  | 62234  |     31 |

State-wise no. of beneficiaries under the scheme 'Support to National Scheduled Tribes Finance and Development Corporations (NSTFDC)'

|   S. No. | State/UT             |   2018- 19 | 2019-20 (upto 31.12.2019)   |
|----------|----------------------|------------|-----------------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh       |        139 | 13                          |
|        2 | Arunachal Pradesh    |       3773 | -                           |
|        3 | Assam                |         12 | -                           |
|        4 | Chhattisgarh         |        363 | 3262                        |
|        5 | Gujarat              |       7485 | 98                          |
|        6 | Haryana              |          1 | -                           |
|        7 | Himachal Pradesh     |         65 | 69                          |
|        8 | Jammu & Kashmir (UT) |        327 | -                           |
|        9 | Jharkhand            |          5 | 3767                        |
|       10 | Kerala               |        107 | 27                          |
|       11 | Karnataka            |         34 | 1911                        |
|       12 | Madhya Pradesh       |       2265 | 9956                        |
|       13 | Maharashtra          |         11 | -                           |
|       14 | Meghalaya            |       2329 | 276                         |
|       15 | Mizoram              |       1464 | 2691                        |
|       16 | Nagaland             |      10504 | 48240                       |
|       17 | Odisha               |        353 | 1290                        |

|   18 | Rajasthan     |   1364 | 111   |
|------|---------------|--------|-------|
|   19 | Sikkim        |      1 | -     |
|   20 | Tamil Nadu    |     65 | 2775  |
|   21 | Telangana     |  30417 | 6775  |
|   22 | Tripura       |    429 | 24    |
|   23 | Uttar Pradesh |      3 | -     |
|   24 | Uttarakhand   |    170 | 12    |
|   25 | West Bengal   |   9078 | 3072  |

## State-wise no. of beneficiaries under the scheme 'Institutional Support for Marketing & Development of Tribal products (TRIFED)' till date

|   Sl. No. | State/UT       |   Number of VDVKs |   Number of beneficiaries |
|-----------|----------------|-------------------|---------------------------|
|         1 | Andhra Pradesh |               263 |                     78818 |
|         2 | Assam          |               128 |                     38530 |
|         3 | Bihar*         |                 8 |                      1630 |
|         4 | Chhattisgarh   |               139 |                     41700 |
|         5 | Goa            |                10 |                      3000 |
|         6 | Gujarat        |               116 |                     34424 |
|         7 | Ladakh (UT)    |                10 |                      3000 |
|         8 | Jharkhand      |                39 |                     11601 |
|         9 | Karnataka      |                19 |                      5700 |
|        10 | Kerala         |                13 |                      3900 |
|        11 | Madhya Pradesh |                86 |                     25800 |
|        12 | Maharashtra    |               264 |                     79350 |
|        13 | Manipur        |               100 |                     30194 |
|        14 | Mizoram        |               159 |                     46168 |
|        15 | Nagaland       |                92 |                     27600 |
|        16 | Odisha         |               156 |                     45578 |
|        17 | Rajasthan      |                27 |                      8190 |
|        18 | Sikkim         |                80 |                     23800 |
|        19 | Tamil Nadu     |                 7 |                      2100 |
|        20 | Telangana      |                17 |                      5100 |
|        21 | Tripura        |                27 |                      7429 |
|        22 | Uttar Pradesh  |                 5 |                      1238 |
|        23 | Uttarakhand    |                 5 |                      1505 |

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