Scheduled Tribes

Currently, no seat in the 40-member Goa assembly is reserved for the Scheduled Tribe community while one seat is reserved for the Scheduled Castes. The Indian Tribal reports

The female doctor, belonging to the Gond tribal community, has achieved a rare distinction of conducting deliveries of over 100 twin babies in just two and half years itself in Durg district hospital. Vijay Singh Thakur reports

The new dispensation of Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi recently announced the special initiative of doling out pocket money to Scheduled Tribe students to dissuade them from dropping out of school. Sandip Kumar Bal reports

As per data provided by the Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Durgadas Uikey, there are 20 slots available under National Overseas Scholarship in every selection year. The Indian Tribal reports

The 73-year-old Paraja tribal agriculturist breathed her last at the SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack, where she was admitted a couple of days ago. The Indian Tribal reports

The senior CPI(M) Politburo member has written to the Union Tribal Affairs Minister calling for local recruitment instead of the existing centralised process. The Indian Tribal reports

With the Assembly elections just a few months away, the decision to bring back the out-on-bail Hemant Soren at the helm of affairs in Jharkhand has been taken as part of a multi-pronged strategy. The Indian Tribal reports

Played mostly by Santal tribals in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha and in the Kolhan region of Jharkhand, this traditional khela (game) is dying slowly without the support of major sports clubs and patronage of State governments, writes Niroj Ranjan Mishra

Approval has been granted to provide pension under Swami Vivekananda Nishakt Swavalamban Protsahan Yojana to nine persons suffering from the deadly disease. The Indian Tribal reports

Elected for the sixth time as the MP from Sundargarh, Oram has for the third time been entrusted with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, crucial to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tribal outreach. Modi 3.0 has only one Minister of State instead of two like last time around. M. [...]