Advocates:
['M/S GANGADHAR TRIPATHY', '', 'M/S H N MOHAPATRA', 'A K PARIDA', 'A SAMANTRAY', 'J P TRIPATHY', 'B JALLI']

21. 03.03.2021 1. Heard Mr. H.N. Mohapatra, learned counsel for the Petitioners

and Mr. S. Palit, learned Additional Government Advocate for

the State-Opposite Parties.

2. The Petitioners have approached this Court to recognize

<Sabar, Nalua Sabar, Kela Sabar community persons in the

Scheduled Tribe (ST) category.

3. In the reply filed by Opposite Party Nos.1 and 2, it is pointed

out that in ST list for Odisha, there is no community notified as

<Sabar=, which has synonyms like <Kela=, <Nalua Kela= and

<Nalua Sabar=. Rather <Kela= and <Nalua Kela= are notified as

Scheduled Castes (SC) at Sl. No.45 of the SC list of Odisha.

There is no community notified as <Nalua Sabar=.

4. Learned counsel for the Petitioners contended that in the list

of STs notified under the Orissa Caste Certificate (SC & ST)

Rules, <Sabar= was included at Sl. No.60.

5. However, from the counter affidavit filed by Opposite Party

Nos.1 and 2, it is seen that as per the Presidential Order of 1950

for the STs titled 8The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order,

1950 published in the Gazette of India on 6^th September, 19509

under S.R.O. 510, the STs relating to State of Odis