Which one of the following States in India has the maximum number of tribal…

Concept

The India State of Forest Report (ISFR), published biennially by the Forest Survey of India (FSI) under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, includes a dedicated chapter assessing forest cover in "tribal districts" — districts notified as having a significant Scheduled Tribe population. In this chapter, states are compared by the absolute COUNT of tribal districts they contain, which is a separate metric from a state's tribal population percentage.

Application

The ISFR 2023 (Volume II) state profiles list the following tribal-district counts for the four states offered:

Reading the table: 24 is the largest of the four counts, so Madhya Pradesh has the maximum number of tribal districts among the states offered.

Cross-check

This is consistent with Madhya Pradesh's size and administrative structure: it has one of India's largest Scheduled Tribe populations in absolute numbers, spread across a large number of its districts. Mizoram and Nagaland, by contrast, have a HIGH PERCENTAGE of tribal population but a small total number of districts overall, which caps how many tribal districts they can have even though nearly all of their districts qualify. Count-of-districts and population-percentage are two different rankings, and this question specifically asks about the count.