Tribal women empowerment: A challenge of 21^st century

India is the second populous country in the world as regards to tribal population. Women's status is often described in terms of their level of income, employment, education, health and fertility as well as the roles they play within the family, the community and society. A tribal woman occupies an important place in the socio-economic structure of her society. Literacy is considered to be an important tool for improving the status of women among the scheduled tribes. Education, language, childbearing and maternal mortality, Women's health, gyaenic problems such as menarche, menstrual problem, pregnancy, delivery, abortion, family planning practices, nutritional status, mothers health, etc are responsible for overall general status of tribal women in India. These tools if properly used responsible for empowerment otherwise leads to hindrance and hurdles. Proper plan of action for developing the above parameters certainly enhance their day to day improvement and responsible for strong individual, then strong family and ultimately empowered tribal society.