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HardEvery year, a month-long ecologically important campaign/festival is held during which certain communities/tribes plant saplings of fruit-bearing trees. Which of the following are such communities/tribes?
Answer & explanation
Answer: (b) Gond and Korku
The tree-planting campaign (Vriksharopan) of Madhya Pradesh's central Indian tribes is associated with the Gond and Korku, who live on the central plateau forests; Bhutia and Lepcha are Sikkim hill peoples, Irula and Toda are Nilgiri peoples, Sahariya and Agariya are Rajasthan/Gujarat groups.
- ✓ (b) Gond and Korku are central Indian forest tribes of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.
- ✗ (a) Bhutia and Lepcha belong to Sikkim and the eastern Himalaya.
- ✗ (c) Irula and Toda are tribes of the Nilgiris in the south.
Remember · Gond and Korku: central Indian forest tribes.
📘 Read it in NCERT: Class 7 Exploring Society: India and Beyond (Part 1), Ch 1 (practise this chapter)
Sources
- NCERT Class 7 · Exploring Society: India and Beyond (Part 1), Chapter 1 “Dense forests on the plateau are home to tribal communities, including the Santhal, Gond, Baiga, Bhil, and Korku.”
Question: UPSC Civil Services (Preliminary) 2014, General Studies paper. UPSC did not publish an answer key for 2014: the answer shown is the generally accepted one, and the sources above explain the facts behind it. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 24 Oct 2026 (how we verify). ·