Discussion
The Sixth Schedule of the Constitution applies to the tribal areas of
Answer: A
Correct answer: Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram
The Sixth Schedule applies to the tribal areas of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram, and provides for autonomous district councils and regional councils. These councils go considerably further than ordinary local government. They have legislative power over land, forests other than reserved forests, shifting cultivation, village administration, inheritance, marriage and social custom; they can constitute village courts to try cases among tribal parties; and they can levy certain taxes and receive royalties. Acts of Parliament and of the state legislature apply to their areas only if the council so decides or the Governor so directs. The Fifth Schedule takes a different approach in the other states with Scheduled Areas - Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and others - giving special responsibility to the Governor and requiring a Tribes Advisory Council, but creating no autonomous legislature. Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland fall under neither; Nagaland has its own special provision in Article 371-A.
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