Adivasis in Gujarat

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Adivasis in Gujarat

• Found in official portal of Gujarat state
• Ever since its inception, Gujarat has been
  showing a new direction to the nation during the
  last 43 years. It is conquering new grounds and
  is ill at ease with the Number One position among
  different states in the country. In the 21st
  Century, its goal is to be compared with the
  economic growth rate of developed nations.

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Adivasis in Gujarat

• Found in the Social Studies Class 9 text book on
  Problems of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
  Tribes (page 94)
• They have not been suitably placed in our social
  order, therefore, even after Independence they
  are still backward and poor. Of course, their
  ignorance, illiteracy and blind faith are to be
  blamed for lack of progress because they still
  fail to realise the importance of education in
  life
• 15 of Gujarat's population is tribal

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Tribal areas in Gujarat

• Uchchhal, Vyara, Mahuwa, Mahuwa, Mandvi, Nizar,
  Songadh, Valod, Mangrol and Bardoli talukas in
  Surat district.
• Dediapada, Sagbara, Valia, Nandod and Jhagadia
  talukas in Bharuch district
• Dangs district and taluka
• Bansda, Dharampur, Chikhali, Pardi and Umbergaon
  talukas in Valasad district
• Jhalod, Dohad, Santrampur, Limkheda and Deogarh
  Baria talukas in Panchmahal district
• Chhotaudepur and Naswadi talukas and Tilakwada
  mahal in Vadodora district
• Khedbrahma, Bhiloda and Meghraj talukas, and
  Vijayanagar mahal in Sabarkantha district

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Adivasis in Gujarat

• Low literacy rates
• High rates of unemployment among educated tribal
  youth
• Drought conditions
• Communal violence
• Erosion of constitutional rights

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Adivasis in Gujarat communal violence

• Missionaries
• Hindutva groups
• Tensions between the 2
• Adivasis participated in 2002 riots - The worst
  violence occurred in Panchmahal, Dahod,
  Chotaudaipur, Sabarkantha and Anand

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Adivasis in Gujarat constitutional rights

• Gujarat Government notification dated November
  23, 2000, denying reservation to the Adivasis In
  the Fifth Schedule Areas. Just 48 hours before
  the gram panchayat elections were announced, the
  Government issued the notification amending the
  Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993, removing the
  provisions of sub-clause (a) of sub-section 5 of
  Section 9 of the Panchayats Act applicable to the
  gram panchayats in the Fifth Schedule Areas,
  where the population of the Scheduled Tribes is
  less than 25 per cent of the total population of
  a gram panchayat.

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NGO's working on Adivasi issues in Gujarat

• DISHAA
• Bhasha Academy
• PSS