Abstract

Tribes in the Indian context have been defined as groups remaining outside of the structures of State and civilisation.. The level of the socio-economic development varies considerably between tribal and non-tribal population, between one tribe and another tribe and even among different sub-group of tribal groups. Number of programmes have been taken by Central and State Government, individually or collaboratively to develop the level of wellbeing of backward population. Besides those programmes, several Non Government Organizations are also providing their best effort to upgrade tribal communities. Still there is considerable percentage of tribal populations are living below poverty line. Though they are relatively better than the past but in relation to their standard of living, most of the tribal people have low quality of livelihood. These disparities and diversities make tribal development and micro level planning of tribal at the grass root level imperative. It is also a fact that more than ninety percent of the Scheduled Tribe population depends upon agriculture and allied activities in the State. Tribal people in the State more or less depend on the Government job and because of the fact that the industrial sector is not developed.   From the study it transpires that the State could achieve development in many sectors and therefore, tribal areas are remaining neglected.