The Lok Sabha on April 1 passed the Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Orders (Amendment) Bill, 2022. The Rajya Sabha had passed it on March 30.
- The Bill seeks to amend the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 to omit Bhogta community from the list of Scheduled Castes in Jharkhand and the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950 for inclusion of certain communities in the lists of Scheduled Tribes in the State.
- The Bhogta people emerged from a union of religious preachers and tribal women. The children from these unions became the Bhogta people, most of whom now live in India’s eastern states of Jharkhand, West Bengal, Orissa, and Bihar.
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