Department of Education Tripura University, (A Central University), Tripura, India
*Corresponding author: gcssarkar@gmail.com
Online published on 8 December, 2017.
This study was conducted in Khowai district of Tripura by selecting six blocks (6). The sample Population of this study includes 90 tribal and 90 non-tribal girl students of class-IX and class-X in rural area of Khowai District of Tripura. Data was collected by administer of “Adolescent girl empowerment scale (AGES)”. It was found that, the empowerment of Tribal non-Tribal girl student is significantly differing from each other. It focused that the Non-Tribal girl students are more empowered than Tribal girl students. This study indicates that government should take a special care for woman development and empowerment, especially for Tribal girl student empowerment. School should provide various co-curriculums activates and social activities, give ample opportunity to participate girl students to those programme which may enable them to develop the social, political, and legal awareness, especially for Tribal girl students.
Tribal girl student, non-tribal girl student, woman empowerment
