Scheduled Tribes recognition: executive notification establishes constitutional status of tribes, subject to Parliament's power to amend lists by law. Article 342 empowers the President to notify tribes, tribal communities, or parts or groups within them as Scheduled Tribes for a State or Union territory, with consultation of the Governor where applicable; Parliament may by law include or exclude any tribe, tribal community, or part or group from the list specified in such a notification, and except for parliamentary amendment a notification issued under clause (1) cannot be varied by subsequent notifications.
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Scheduled Tribes recognition: executive notification establishes constitutional status of tribes, subject to Parliament's power to amend lists by law.
Article 342 empowers the President to notify tribes, tribal communities, or parts or groups within them as Scheduled Tribes for a State or Union territory, with consultation of the Governor where applicable; Parliament may by law include or exclude any tribe, tribal community, or part or group from the list specified in such a notification, and except for parliamentary amendment a notification issued under clause (1) cannot be varied by subsequent notifications.
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