• The Union Cabinet has given its approval for the constitution of Development and Welfare Board for Denotified, Nomadic & Semi-nomadic Communities (DNCs).
• The Government has decided to set up a Development and Welfare Board under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 under the aegis of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
• While most DNTs are spread across the SC, ST and OBC categories, some DNTs are not covered in any of these.
• These communities are hard to reach, less visible, and therefore frequently left out.
• It has, therefore, approved the setting up of a Committee under the Chairpersonship of Vice-Chairman, NITI Aayog.

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• It will complete the process of identification of the Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Communities (DNCs) that have not yet been formally classified.

Denotified Tribes

• The term stands for all those communities which were once notified under the    Criminal Tribes Acts, enforced by the British Raj between l87l and I947.
• These Acts were repealed by the Independent Indian Government in l952, and these communities were          “De-Notified”.
• A few of these communities which were listed as de-notified were also nomadic.
• Nomadic and Semi-nomadic Tribes
• Nomadic and semi-nomadic are social groups who undertook a fairly frequent, usually seasonal physical movement as part of their livelihood strategy in the recent past.
• The term semi-nomad is mostly used to describe those sections of nomads whose duration, distance and frequency of movement is comparatively less than others.
• On the other hand, Semi-nomadic groups tend to have a fixed abode for a part of the year and are itinerant in the rest of the year.