IMPLEMENTATION OF RENKE COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS

• Renke Commission = National Commission for De-notified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes (DNT/NT/SNT), constituted by Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment (MoSJE) in March 2005; report submitted July 2008.
• Recommendations operationalised through a sequence: NCDNT (advisory commission) → DWBDNC (Feb 2019) → SEED scheme (2022).
• Concerns ~10% of India's population — communities historically stigmatised under the colonial Criminal Tribes Act, 1871 (repealed 1952) — a recurring GS-I (society) & GS-II (vulnerable sections) theme.