89th Amendment

2 notes tagged 89th Amendment.

• Polity

  National Commission for Scheduled Castes: Article 338's Civil Court Powers

  How the NCSC investigates safeguards, its civil-court powers under Article 338(8), and why this article originally covered Scheduled Tribes too before the 89th Amendment split them into their own Commission.

• Polity

  National Commission for Scheduled Tribes: Carved Out of Article 338 in 2003

  Article 338A gave Scheduled Tribes their own dedicated Commission only from 2003, splitting away from the combined SC-and-ST body Article 338 originally described.