Media Post 4 – Tribes in India
3 April 2023
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The scheduled tribes population of the country is 8.43 corer, constituting about 8.2% of the total population. More than half of the scheduled tribes population is concentrated in the sates of Madya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Jarkhand and Gujarat. 6.5 scheduled tribes communities live in about 15% of the country’s areas, in various geoclimatic and ecological conditions ranging from plains and forests to hills and inaccessible areas.
