342.Scheduled Tribes.—(1) The President may with respect to any State or
•Union territory, and where it is a State, after consultation with the Governor thereof, by
•public notification, 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)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.".
3.According to the provisions of articles 341 and 342 of the Constitution, the first lists
•of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes were notified during the year 1950 in
•respect of various States and Union territories, vide the Constitution (Scheduled Castes)
•Order, 1950 and the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950, respectively. The first list of
•Scheduled Tribes in respect of the State of Uttar Pradesh notified vide the Constitution
•(Scheduled Tribes) (Uttar Pradesh) Order, 1967. These lists were modified from time to time.
•List of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes of the State of Uttar Pradesh has been
•modified, vide, the Constitution Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Orders (Amendment)
•Act, 2002 (10 of 2003). The State Government of Uttar Pradesh has requested to exclude
•"Gond" Community living in the newly created districts of Sant Kabir Nagar, Kushinagar,
•Chandauli and Sant Ravidas Nagar from the list of Scheduled Casts and to include Gond,
•Dhuria, Nayak, Ojha, Pathari, Rajgond communities living in the districts of Sant Kabir Nagar,
•Kushinagar, Chandauli and Sant Ravidas Nagar in the list of Scheduled Tribes in the State of
•Uttar Pradesh.
