most isolated and disadvantaged indigenous tribal groups with noticeable reduction in their population. Malnutrition, Malaria and dysentery are rampant in PTGs villages and the access of these communities to the social welfare programmes remains limited. The tribals normally live in contiguous areas unlike other communities. Their lives are closely associated with the nature as they eke out their livelihoods from the natural environ streams, – trees, plants, animals etc. It is, therefore, recognized that maintaining their identities would invariably mean keeping their environment intact with them. Given the contiguous inhabitations, it also becomes simpler to have an area approach for development activities and also regulatory provisions to protect their interests. In order to protect the interests of the Scheduled tribes, the provision of Schedule” is enshrined in the Constitution under article 244 (2). “Fifth Out of 259 blocks in the of Jharkhand, 111 fall under the Fifth Schedule areas (spread across 15 districts out of 24 districts) Administrative The consists of 5 Administrative Divisions namely: South Chhotanagpur comprising 5 districts - Ranchi, Khunti, Simdega, Gumla and Lohardaga. Administrative No. of Units North Chhotanagpur comprising 7 Districts 24 districts - Hazaribagh, Ramgarh, Sub-Division 36 Chatra, Koderma, Giridih, Bokaro 259 Developmental Blocks and Dhanbad. Kolhan comprising 3 districts - East Panchayats 4,423 Singhbhum, West Singhbhum and Villages 32,615 Saraikela-Kharsawan. Towns 149 Palamu comprising 3 districts - Corporations 3 Palamu, Garhwa and Latehar. Santhal Parganas comprising 6 Parshad/Nagar Panchayat 37 districts - Sahebganj, Pakur, Source: Census of India, 2011 Jamtara, Deoghar, Dumka and Godda.
most isolated and disadvantaged indigenous tribal groups with noticeable reduction in their population. Malnutrition, Malaria and dysentery are rampant in PTGs villages and the access of these communities to the social welfare programmes remains limited. The tribals normally live in contiguous areas unlike other communities. Their lives are closely associated with the nature as they eke out their livelihoods from the natural environ – streams, trees, plants, animals etc. It is, therefore, recognized that maintaining their identities would invariably mean keeping their environment intact with them. Given the contiguous inhabitations, it also becomes simpler to have an area approach for development activities and also regulatory provisions to protect their interests. In order to protect the interests of the Scheduled tribes, the provision of “Fifth Schedule” is enshrined in the Constitution under article 244 (2). Out of 259 blocks in the of Jharkhand, 111 fall under the Fifth Schedule areas (spread across 15 districts out of 24 districts) Administrative The consists of 5 Administrative Divisions namely: Administrative No. of Units Districts 24 Sub-Division 36 Developmental Blocks 259 Panchayats 4,423 Villages 32,615 Towns 149 Corporations 3 Parshad/Nagar Panchayat 37 Source: Census of India, 2011 South Chhotanagpur comprising 5 districts - Ranchi, Khunti, Simdega, Gumla and Lohardaga. North Chhotanagpur comprising 7 districts - Hazaribagh, Ramgarh, Chatra, Koderma, Giridih, Bokaro and Dhanbad. Kolhan comprising 3 districts - East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum and Saraikela-Kharsawan. Palamu comprising 3 districts - Palamu, Garhwa and Latehar. Santhal Parganas comprising 6 districts - Sahebganj, Pakur, Jamtara, Deoghar, Dumka and Godda.
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