Achievement of Different Components of Livelihood Security Under Tribal Sub Plan in Manipur

The tribals constitute a significant portion of Indian population. Development of an economy is positively related to the tribals-their social, cultural and the economic development. Most of the areas inhabited by the tribals are remote and underdeveloped. It is difficult to think of the balanced development of the state without improving the lot of the tribal people living in hill districts. The Government of India has been formulating policies, programs, projects and schemes focusing on tribal people and investing significant financial resources through every Five Year Plan to accelerate the rural development. Tribal Sub Plan is also one of the programmes initiated by the Government of India during Fifth Five Year Plan for socio-economic amelioration of the tribal communities in India. In Manipur, the Tribal Sub-Plan was intervened with an objective to provide tribal families a variety of welfare and development programmes. The present study was conducted in Kangpokpi and Chandel districts of Manipur with the objective of prioritizing the different components of livelihood security based on the benefit received by the beneficiaries. A total of 100 TSP beneficiaries were interviewed. For analysis of data, The Method of Paired Comparison was followed. It was found from the study that after commencement of TSP in the study area, food security is the component where the respondents (TSP beneficiaries) received maximum benefit followed by financial security, educational security, health security and habitat security.