Scheduled Area Subdistrics of India

This dataset provides identification of the Scheduled Fifth and Scheduled Sixth Areas of India at the subdistrict level (blocks/mandals/tehsils/talukas) as of 2024. The dataset is an original compilation of lists released by the Fifth Scheduled states in their Annual Reports on Scheduled Areas, up until 2017, and the Annual Report of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs 2023-24. The last change in scheduled areas was made in 2007 by the state of Jharkhand, with these scheduled status being accurate as of 2024. For Sixth Scheduled states, I refer to the post 1986 division of the state of Assam and the subsequent subdistricts that today come under Sixth Scheduled Areas. For both of these areas, subdistricts containing even one village that is scheduled were coded as being scheduled. The last change in scheduled areas was made in 2007 by the state of Jharkhand, with these scheduled status being accurate as of 2024. As most of these documents are scanned copies, these were manually coded to match the state, district and subdistrict identifiers of the SHRUG as per Census 2011. All remaining omissions and mistakes are the author’s.