Part XVI · CHAPTER II.— PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONS

Article 342 Scheduled Tribes.

This article defines the Scheduled Tribes. The President may notify the tribes deemed Scheduled Tribes for each State or Union territory. Parliament may include or exclude any tribe by law. The same pattern as article 341, for the tribes. The notified list is the operative one.

1. (1) The President may with respect to any State or Union territory, and where it is a State 5***, after consultation with the Governor 1*** thereof, by public notification6, specify the tribes or tribal communities or parts of or groups within tribes or tribal communities which shall for the purposes of this Constitution be deemed to be Scheduled Tribes in relation to that State or Union territory, as the case may be.
2. (2) Parliament may by law include in or exclude from the list of Scheduled Tribes specified in a notification issued under clause (1) any tribe or tribal community or part of or group within any tribe or tribal community, but save as aforesaid a notification issued under the said clause shall not be varied by any subsequent notification.

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