At Social Justice Ministry huddle, counting DNTs in focus

The Social Justice Ministry connected Sunday (April 26, 2026) concluded a three-day “chintan shivir” (brainstorming session), during which the inclusion of denotified, nomadic, and semi-nomadic tribes (DNTs) successful the ongoing Census 2027 exercise was 1 of the cardinal absorption areas, on with however to instrumentality the Ministry’s existing schemes forward.

This comes arsenic DNT communities crossed assorted parts of India are organising to request a abstracted file oregon question successful the Census forms, specifically to relationship for their populations crossed the country. Community leaders are besides mobilising to person a abstracted Schedule for DNTs connected par with the lists of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes. The Supreme Court dismissed a petition past period seeking a Census question for DNTs and a abstracted classification for them, leaving them the liberty to attack the authorities connected the matter.