(a) whether people belonging to Kol tribe have been given the status of a tribe in the States of Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Uttaranchal, Jharkhand, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh; and
(b) if so, the reasons for not giving recognition to the Kol tribe in other States including Uttar Pradesh ?
MINISTER OF TRIBAL AFFAIRS (SHRI P.R. KYNDIAH)
(a) & (b): Kol Tribe has been notified as Scheduled Tribe in the States of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya
Pradesh, Maharashtra and Orissa only.
The list of Scheduled Tribes in relation to a State or Union Territory is notified under the provisions
of Article 342 of the Constitution of India. Accordingly, the list of notified Scheduled Tribes is State / Union
Territory specific. Before any community can be considered for inclusion in the Scheduled Tribes list of any
State / UT it must fulfill the criteria adopted by Government of India for identification of a community i.e.:
(i) Indications of primitive traits,
(ii) Distinctive culture,
(iii) Geographical isolation,
(iv) Shyness of contact with
the community at large and
(v) Social and economic backwardness The Government on 15-6-1999 has approved the modalities
for determining the claims for inclusion in, exclusion from and other modifications in the list of Scheduled Castes and
Scheduled Tribes. According to these modalities only those proposals, which have been recommended by the concerned State
Government and the Registrar General of India as well as the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
Tribes (now the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes) are to be considered and legislation amended.
The proposal for inclusion of Kol community in other States including Uttar Pradesh have been processed as
per approved modalities.