All former Indian States predominately inhabited by tribal people should be included in the List of Scheduled Areas.
It is gratifying to note that in the whole of India certain tracts have been constituted as Scheduled Areas for the all round development and progress of the Tribal People. But it is unfortunate that at the time when the Tribal Areas Advisory Sub-Committee of the constituent Assembly was touring in the different provinces of India the States had not then merged in India. So they were excluded from the list of Scheduled Areas recommended for the different provinces. Happily for the country almost all the States have merged in the provinces of the Dominion of India. We most earnestly and strongly appeal to the Hon’ble President and all the Hon’ble Members of the Constituent Assembly that all such States or portion of such States as are predominately inhabited by tribal people be included in the list of Scheduled Areas before the New Constitution is finalised.