Religion in news: Sarna Religion

Religion in news: Sarna Religion

Part of: GS Prelims and GS-I – Culture

In news

• The Jharkhand government has passed a resolution to send the Centre a letter to recognise Sarna religion and include it as a separate code in the Census of 2021.

Important value additions 

Sarna religion

• The followers of Sarna faith believe in praying to nature. 
• The motto of the faith is “Jal, Jungle, Zameen”. 
• Its followers pray to the trees and hills while believing in protecting the forest areas.

Do you know? 

• It is believed that 50 lakhs tribals in the entire country put their religion as ‘Sarna’ in the 2011 census, although it was not a code.

• Jharkhand has 32 tribal groups of which 8 are from Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups.