Tribal Education: Challenges And Ongoing Measures A Critical Analysis

Abstract

Tribal education is one of the most emerging policy issues in contemporary India because of
so many reasons behind for development of tribal education, among them deprivation and illiteracy
major one. Their educational status has been seen as very poor and worst because of the isolation,
inaccessible lack of communication facilities, poor health conditions, hostile environment, poor
economic conditions, and superstitious beliefs. Tribal deserve special development measures to
enhance their quality of life. This paper focuses on the current status of tribal education, highlighting
challenges and ongoing measures undertaken by the Central Government and regional government to
make the life of tribes better and sustainable in a given situation. Also, in this paper, an attempt has
been made to analyze the causes of poor educational status of tribal students, to find out the suggestive
measures for further improvement in tribal literacy rate and also makes different admirable
recommendations to overcome barriers like Guidance and counseling centers should be set up for tribal
students, Monitoring of the programmer should be done at the grass-root level through village
education committee, etc.