Awareness of Tribal Sub-Plan for Livelihood Security of Tribal's in Dungarpur district of Southern Rajasthan

The tribal development efforts had been subjected to close scrutiny from Plan to Plan and had undergone continuous modifications, finer tuning and reorientation. It was during the Fifth Plan period that the concept of Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) was implemented. The Eleventh Five Year Plan (EFYP) seeks to strengthen the TSP. One of the major objectives of the Eleventh Plan is “to reform TSP and restore its dynamic character to make it an effective instrument for tribal development ”. The study was conducted with the objective to determine the awareness of tribal regarding livelihood programmes in TSP area. Total 84 male and female respondents from five villages of Dungarpur tehsil/district of Rajasthan were interviewed for data collection.structured interview schedule was used for the purpose. The findings revealed that Majority of male and female respondents were possessed medium level of awareness followed by low and high level of awareness groups. They possessed least awareness regarding do you know about Supervision & controlling of the activities regularly done by the staff members and Evaluation of the activities done by the project staff members.