Department of Economics, Avinashilingam Deemed University, Coimbatore-641043, Tamil Nadu, India.
Online published on 27 December, 2011.
Improvement in quality of life has been one of the objectives of the five year plans. In the context of the tribal development, it is urgently required. It may be achieved through medical and health, nutrition, sanitation facilities, provision of safe drinking water, education, adult education, employment generation, and occupational mobility. Since India opted for planned development, special attention has been paid to uplift society of tribal areas, by providing enhanced allotment of funds and evolving special development programmes and integrate the tribes with the at large society within the shortest possible time. “Health is wealth”, as the saying goes, the national health policy (1993) of India which recognizing the heterogeneous tribal population and their varied health problems, accorded a high priority for extending the health services to those residing in the rural areas, with a concentration of tribes of India. An attempt has been made in the paper, to highlight up on the issues like improvement in living standard of tribal population and their health status who benefited from selected development programme in a selected Tribal area.
