With reference to the Denotified Nomadic Tribes DNTs consider the following statements They are the ...........

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With reference to the Denotified Nomadic Tribes (DNTs), consider the following statements

They are the tribes which were notified as criminal tribes under Criminal Tribes Act, 1871, by the British colonial government.
Every year April 4 is celebrated as Vimukti Diwas or Liberation Day by DNTs across the country.

Select the correct statement.

1 only

2 only

Both

None

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Explanation:

A Parliamentary Standing Committee has expressed its displeasure at the Central Government’s delay in categorising Denotified and Nomadic Tribes as Dalits, Tribals or Backwards.

DNTs are the tribes which were notified as criminal tribes under Criminal Tribes Act, 1871, by the British colonial government.
Under this Act, millions of nomadic and semi-nomadic communities were declared criminals and put under continuous surveillance.
After decades of facing horrors of this racial Act, they were denotified by the Government of independent India on August 31, 1952.
Every year this day is celebrated as Vimukti Diwas or Liberation Day by DNTs across the country.
After denotification in 1952, some of these communities were included in Scheduled Tribe (ST), Scheduled Caste (SC) and Other Backward Caste lists because they come from diverse social backgrounds.
The DNTs are a heterogenous group engaged in various occupations such as transport, key-making, salt trading, entertaining — acrobats, dancers, snake charmers, jugglers — and pastoralists.

Hence only statement 1st is correct.