QUESTION 27
GS3
10 marks
Article 244 of the Indian Constitution relates to administration of scheduled areas and tribal areas. Analyse the impact of non-implementation of provisions of the Fifth Schedule on growth of Left Wing extremism.
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7 min
200 words
What the examiner wants
Analyse how failure to implement Fifth Schedule safeguards helped Left Wing Extremism grow.
AnalyseBreak it into parts, show how the parts connect, and judge which matter most.
Demand-wise check
- 1Fifth Schedule: Governor can bar or modify laws and make regulations on land transfer and money-lending; Tribes Advisory Council; Governor's annual report to President≈35 words
- 2Non-implementation: Governors rarely used powers; TACs inactive; PESA (1996) rules delayed in many states; land alienation and mining leases without consent≈35 words
- 3Link to LWE: displacement, forest harassment, moneylenders and no local self-rule created grievances Maoists exploited in Bastar, Jharkhand, Odisha≈35 words
- 4Remedies: enforce PESA and FRA, gram sabha consent, Governor's active role, development with security (SAMADHAN)≈35 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
Article 244 and Fifth ScheduleProvisionsHow they were ignoredGrievance-LWE link with regionsRemedies
Where marks usually go
- Treating LWE purely as a law-and-order issue
- Not naming specific Fifth Schedule powers that went unused
Draw this
- Overlap map: Fifth Schedule areas and most LWE-affected districts in central India
Value addition
- CaseSamatha v State of Andhra Pradesh (1997): lease of tribal land in Scheduled Areas to private mining firms is void.Supreme Court, 1997
- ReportExpert Group on 'Development Challenges in Extremist Affected Areas' (D. Bandyopadhyay, 2008) linked LWE to land alienation and non-implementation of PESA.Planning Commission, 2008
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Reviewed public-source references related to this PYQ. Same-syllabus references are labelled separately.
- Aniket Ranjan · AIR 48 · Page 50 ↗Reviewed PYQ reference
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