Legal glossary
“scheduled tribes”
Defined in 3 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
The Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006 · s. 2
(i) "Scheduled Tribes" means the Scheduled Tribes notified under article 342 of the Constitution; 1[(ia) "specified north-eastern region" means the area comprising of the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura and the tribal areas of Assam referred to in the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution;
Read section 2The Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers Cadre) Act, 2019 · s. 2
(j) "Scheduled Tribes" means the Scheduled Tribes notified under article 342 of the Constitution;
Read section 2The Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 · s. 2
(54) "Scheduled Tribes" means such tribes or tribal communities or parts of groups within such tribes or tribal communities as are specified to be Scheduled Tribes in relation to the State of Manipur under article 342 of the Constitution of India;
Read section 2