Socio-cultural, economic, educational and administrative safeguards for the development of tribals in India

Hopefully the 73^rd and 74^th Constitutional Amendment Acts are helping the backward classes in becoming active and awakened. This will assume a greater problem in coming days. As to backward class, tribal population figures about seven percent of the total population of India. They are staying in remote areas for more than thousands of years. True, there is a gap between their values and mainstream value. So, to deal with this, different models of assimilation are developed to bring their development. Whether the transformation is good or bad, is a different question? But tribal development is a major issue, as they play the prime role in consumer economy. Evidently, tribal development is a buzzword of political system. Concomitantly, lack of political will, bureaucratic apathy, and public in difference choked their development process. And at times, tribal public opinion, their rising makes it obligatory on the part of the Government to take care of their interest. As such, the actors like Government and Non-Governmental Agencies are going to take positive steps for tribal development and for reconciliation and amalgamation of tribal culture. Necessarily, tribal development is a collective affair. It is the work of Planning Commission, Prime minister, Chief Ministers of states, Political leaders, Specialists and administrators from top to the bottom in our country. In one word, tribal development is a dynamic process. It has national and local significance. In this article the scholar is ready to highlight the Socio-Cultural, Economic, Educational and Administrative safeguards for the development of Tribals in India.