A study on low literacy among three dominated tribes of Koraput, Odisha (India)

Tribes have their own culture, socio-economic traditions and governance system. Unless we respect and connect the content and curriculum with their culture, languages, social and political practices, mainstreaming the tribes through education would continue to be a difficult task. A study conducted on low literacy, dropout rate among the tribal population and identification of factors that determined the hindrance of the children education indicated that parents, land holding and occupation, Socio-cultural influences, linguistic hurdles, less awareness of parents’ towards education is main cause of low enrollment of children in schools.