Assistant Professor Department of Social Work, Central University of Tamilnadu, Thiruvaru
Online published on 22 June, 2018.
Education is one of the developmental indicators in human development index. But it has seriously denied to certain people of the society. However with the efficient efforts by the government and other voluntary organizationseducation has reached into the socially and economically marginalized people of the Indian society. Tribe is one among them, they are in low educational status in the national average of educational development while compare to other communities in India. This situation leads to isolate the community and prevent enter into the main stream of the society. It is contradiction to the development agenda of the developing nation like India. Therefore this study would like to discuss prosperous and barriers of the primary level of tribal education in India. Hence this study has formulated the following objectives: to analyses the tribal education status in India, to describe the barriers of educational development of the tribal communities and to find out the remedial measures to improve the tribal education status.
Tribal education, dropouts, development