Ministry Of Tribal Affairs (India)
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs, a branch of Government of India, looks after the affairs of the tribal communities in India. As of July 2011, the ministry is headed by Kishore Chandra Deo, a Union Cabinet Minister. The Sonia Gandhi led NAC has currently pulled up the tribal affairs ministry, the nodal agency for forest rights law, to exercise its power under the Act and issue the instructions to all states, in the form of operational guidelines to plug the loopholes.
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