The Government of India has designed and implemented different policies for improving the welfare of the scheduled tribes besides specialized institutions like ITDAs and GCCs apart from constitutional guarantees. However, the study team on Tribal development (Shilu. A.O. Team 1969) found that a large number of tribal communities continue to be extremely backward. The committee suggested that the lowest layer among the tribal need special treatment and separate schemes by considering them as central schemes. By the end of the VIII plan 75 tribes were recognized as Primitive Tribal Groups and they are now referred to as PVTGs (Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups). Population of these tribal groups as per 2011 census is 27,68,322 and 18 of this groups have less than 1000 each in number facing the danger of extinction. PTGs live in isolated and remote areas in the forests and they gather food
through hunting. Against the background elaborated this paper makes an attainment to examine the “Employment patterns and Migratory trends” of the Chenchus, a PVTG declared in 1975 itself by taking Nagarkurnool district of the Telangana State.
Keywords: ITDA: Integrated Tribal Development Agency, GCC: Girijan Co-operative Corporation, PVTGs: Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups, PTGs: Primitive Tribal Groups etc.
