1Department of Anthropology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, 211 004.
2Department of Anthropology, Lucknow University.
3Asian Institute of Human Science and Development, 140 A Preetinagar (Dudauli Marg, Tarikhana), Sitapur Road, Lucknow, 226 021, (India).
Education in its broadest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another. Education aims at achieving certain broader goals like bringing about all-round development in the individual and simultaneously fulfilling the societal aspirations. The purpose of education mainly revolves around the development and perfection of both individual and society. In the above stated background this paper firstly, discusses the purpose of the education by the help of the various definitions of education given by great persons like Gandhiji, R.N. Tagore, H. Spencer etc. Thereafter it list out various programmes and policies such as NPE 1986, Programme of Action (POA) 1986, the Revised Policy Formulations (RPF) in POA 1992 etc. that are initiated by the government of India for the betterment of Tribal education. The impacts of these programmes on tribal education are then analyzed by the help of the data published by the various government agencies. Some strategies for intervention along with the specific areas such as physical location of the villages, potentialities of the teachers, parental involvement in schools, tribal students, study materials and books and social and cultural issues are then prescribed. The paper concludes by pointing out that in order to get fruitful results these strategies needs a lot of patience, perseverance and forego of many conventional methods which is practiced from a long time. If we succeed in all these endeavors, which are mentioned in the entire paper, definitely it will lead to success.
