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Which Scheduled Tribe lives near Uttarakhand's border with Nepal?

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Uttarakhand Bathing ghats on the Bhagirathi River at Gangotri, Uttarakhand, India.

The Raji are the Scheduled Tribe that lives near the border of Uttarakhand and Nepal.1

While the Rai people are also an indigenous group, they are primarily located in eastern Nepal and southwestern Bhutan, rather than along the Uttarakhand border. In Uttarakhand, Scheduled Tribes represent a small minority of the total population, accounting for less than 5 percent of the state's residents.21