If a particular area is brought under the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution of India, which one of the following statements best reflects the consequence of it ?
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Answer: A. The Fifth Schedule gives special protection to Scheduled Areas. The Governor can make regulations to stop or restrict the transfer of land by tribal people to non-tribals. Many states have such laws. So bringing an area under the Fifth Schedule mainly protects tribal land.
Watch for: Students mix up the Fifth Schedule with the Sixth Schedule, which creates autonomous district councils.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. Wrong because autonomous self-governing councils are a Sixth Schedule feature, not Fifth Schedule.
- C. Wrong because the area stays part of the state, not a Union Territory.
- D. Wrong because Special Category status depended on Finance Commission and NDC criteria, not the Fifth Schedule.
Source to check: Constitution of India, Fifth Schedule, Paragraph 5(2); M. Laxmikanth, Indian Polity, chapter 'Scheduled and Tribal Areas'
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