A draft National Tribal Policy was formulated in 2006. It covers all important issues that concern tribals. Its objectives are as follows:
- Preservation of traditional and customary systems and regime of rights and concessions enjoyed by different ST communities.
- Preventing alienation of land owned by STs and restoring possession of wrongfully alienated lands.
- Protection and vesting of rights of STs on forest lands and other forest rights.
- Providing a legislative frame for rehabilitation and resettlement in order to minimise displacement.
- Empowerment of tribal communities to promote self-governance and self-rule.
- Protection of political rights to ensure greater and active participation of tribals in political bodies at all levels.
- Reducing and removing the gap in the HDI of the tribal population and the general population.
- Ensuring access to health care services, safe drinking water and improved sanitation.
- Increase the participation of STs in sports and culture at local, district state and National levels.
- Promotion and development of tribal handicrafts and organic and ethnic products.
- Arresting the increasing demand from new communities for inclusion in the list of STs by rationalising the process of scheduling.
- Focussing on the development of Primitive Tribal Groups (PTGs), which are to be renamed as Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups.
- Development of nomadic and semi-nomadic Tribes through need based specific programmes.
- Conservation and protection of the intellectual property regime of STs
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