The Supreme Court today sought the Centre's response on a petition seeking quota benefits to nearly 15 crore de-notified nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes said to be living in penury and social neglect.

A bench of justices J M Panchal and H L Gokhale issued notice to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Cabinet Secretary,
Ministry of Social Justice, National Commission for Backward Classes, Ministry of Tribal Welfare and the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India on the petition of Mohan Dhansing Chavhan, a member of the tribe.

Besides seeking reservation benefits, the petition also sought census enumeration of such neglected de-notified as it was not being since Independence.