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UPSC 2005: Which one of the following statements is not correct?
(a)There is no definition of the Scheduled Tribe in the Constitution of India.
(b)North-East India accounts for a little over half of the country’s tribal population.
(c)The people known as Todas live in the Nilgiri area.
(d)Lotha is a language spoken in Nagaland.
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Not attemptedCorrect Answer: (b) North-East India accounts for a little over half of the country’s tribal population.
The Constitution merely empowers the President to notify Scheduled Tribes under Art. 342 (Art. 366(25) only refers to such notification), so it gives no descriptive definition—statement (a) is factually acceptable. Todas are a tribal people of the Nilgiris (Tamil Nadu) and Lotha is a Naga language of Wokha district, Nagaland—statements (c) and (d) are correct. North-East India accounts for only about 12 % of India’s tribal population (central India has ~55 %), not ‘a little over half’; therefore statement (b) is incorrect, making option (b) the ‘not correct’ choice. ([constitutionofindia.net](https://www.constitutionofindia.net/articles/article-366-definitions/?utm_source=openai))
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