• The Government has promulgated various laws/regulations from time to time to ensure that the rights and well-being  of the Sentinelese are safeguarded. 

Important steps:

• The entire North Sentinel Island along with 5 km coastal sea from high water mark is notified as tribal reserve.
• The Sentinelese are still in isolation practicing primordial hunting and gathering way of life. The Government respects their way of life style, therefore, has adopted an ‘eyes-on and hands-off’ practice to protect and safeguard the Sentinelese tribe.
• A protocol of circumnavigation of the North Sentinel Island has been notified.  The ships and aircrafts of Coast Guard and boats of Marine Police make sorties around North Sentinel to keep surveillance.
• Apart from the land territory the coastal sea up to fixed extent of 1 Km to 5 Km abutting the tribal territory has also been notified as tribal reserve so that marine resources like fish, turtle etc are available exclusively for the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs). 
• The vehicular traffic on Andaman Trunk Road passing through Jarawa reserve is regulated by convoy system. Buffer Zone notified in 2013, around the Jarawa Tribal Reserve (5km landward side and 1km seaward side), prohibits all commercial / tourism activity in the Buffer Zone. 
•  Joint patrolling by Police, Forest & Andaman Adim Janjati Vikas Samiti (AAJVS) is carried out around Jarawa area to prevent contact of poachers and unscrupulous non-tribal elements with Jarawa tribe. A Special Police Team (01 SI and 10 PCs) for patrolling at Tirrur, adjacent to the Jarawa Tribal Reserve, has also been deployed. The ships and aircrafts of Coast Guard and boats of Marine Police make sorties around North Sentinel to keep surveillance. 

About North Sentinel island:

• It spread across 28 square miles, North Sentinel Island has had little significant contact with the outside world for, perhaps, 60,000 years. Until a few months ago, all travel was banned to the island – for the sake of both the safety of the tourists and the long-term well-being of the island dwellers.
• There has been a debate in recent years on what’s the best way forward to deal with a tribe like this – should they be kept under isolation – left alone, in other words -- or cautious attempts be made to reach out to them?
• Renowned anthropologist TN Pandit and his team played a pivotal role starting from the late 1960s in researching the various tribes and drawing a section of the Sentinelese people away from their bow and arrow ways. He did this by presenting them gifts of coconuts. The policy was partially successful – and controversial.
• But interactions between the tribe and outsiders have led to several unpleasant and violent incidents over the years.
• In 2006, tribesmen killed two fishermen who had illegally entered waters near the island. An attempt by the coast guard to retrieve their bodies by helicopter was also met by a shower of arrows.
• From whatever little is known about their way of life, the Sentinelese haven’t progressed to agriculture yet. Their diet is believed to include coconuts, fish, turtles and even birds. Instead of wearing clothes, they use natural materials such as leaves and strings.
• Population estimates vary from 40 to 350, which means any contact with the Sentinelese that goes even slightly awry can have catastrophic consequences for the entire tribe. Miraculously, they survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. According to some accounts, they did this by moving to higher ground in time.