Article 339 Constitution of India: Control of the Union over the administration of Scheduled Areas and the welfare of Scheduled Tribes

Category of Bare Act Name of the Act Year of Promulgation
Civil Laws The CONSTITUTION OF INDIA 1975
Act Number Enactment Date Chapter Number
36 1975-04-26 16
Chapter Title Ministry Department
Special Provisions Relating To Certain Classes Ministry of Law And Justice Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms

(1) The President may at any time and shall, at the expiration of ten years from the commencement of this Constitution by order appoint a Commission to report on the administration of the Scheduled Areas and the welfare of the Scheduled Tribes in the States 1[***].

The order may define the composition, powers and procedure of the Commission and may contain such incidental or ancillary provisions, as the President may consider necessary or desirable.

(2) The executive power of the Union shall extend to the giving of directions to 2[a State] as to the drawing up and execution of schemes specified in the direction to be essential for the welfare of the Scheduled Tribes in the State.

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1. The words and letters “specified in Part A and Part B of the First Schedule” omitted by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, s. 29 and Sch.

2. Subs. by s. 29 and Sch., the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956., for “any such State”.