QUESTION 10
GS1
10 marks
What are the two major legal initiatives by the State since Independence, addressing discrimination against Scheduled Tribes (STs)?
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7 min
150 words
What the examiner wants
Identify and explain the two main post-Independence legal measures against discrimination of Scheduled Tribes.
What areAnswer exactly what the question asks.
Demand-wise check
- 1SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989: defines atrocities, special courts, no anticipatory bail, 2015 and 2018 amendments≈30 words
- 2Forest Rights Act, 2006: undoes 'historical injustice', recognises individual and community forest rights, gram sabha role≈30 words
- 3Also: PESA 1996 and Fifth/Sixth Schedules as supporting framework≈30 words
- 4Gaps: low conviction, FRA claim rejections≈30 words
Open in about 20 words and close in about 20.
Answer plan
Constitutional baseAct 1 with featuresAct 2 with featuresGapsConclusion
Where marks usually go
- Listing constitutional articles instead of legal initiatives
- Naming more than two without explaining any
Draw this
- Two-column table of the two Acts
Value addition
- CaseOrissa Mining Corporation v MoEF (2013, Niyamgiri): gram sabhas decided on mining under the FRA.Supreme Court, 2013
- LawSection 18A (2018 amendment) restored the bar on anticipatory bail after the Subhash Kashinath Mahajan judgment; upheld in Prathvi Raj Chauhan (2020).Supreme Court, 2020
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Reviewed public-source references related to this PYQ. Same-syllabus references are labelled separately.
- Ajay R Raj · AIR 109 · Page 9 ↗Reviewed PYQ reference
- Akansh Dhull · AIR 3 · Page 15 ↗Reviewed PYQ reference
- Akansh Dhull · AIR 3 · Page 35 ↗Same syllabus reference
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