Role of Developmental Programmes for the Tribals in the Nilgiris District

Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 1

Abstract

The tribal people of India constitute an integral part of the Indian population and represent a part of Indian culture. The total population of the Scheduled tribes in the country is about 67.8 million and they constitute of about 8.08% of the total population. Tribal Development in India is a subject, which is being discussed among statesmen, academics and scholars over six decades. During this period, it has become a subject which drew serious and widespread concern and pronounced attention from several quarters ranging from policy makers and development planners to academics providing material for all of them. Thus, the state is becoming increasingly important in the context of tribal development. The present study is based on secondary source of information and provides an overall picture of developmental programmes by the Government for the upliftment of tribal communities in the Nilgiris District.

Authors and Affiliations

Dr. Hemasri kumar, G. Nithya

Keywords

.

Related Articles

Critically Assessing the Practical Orientation in Amartya Sen’s Notion of Justice.

Questions of social justice on who gets what, how the scarce resources should be distributed in any political community, has been an issue of concern right from the origin of the state to the present. It has signalled th...

Cinematic categorization of gender identities from the gaze of sociological imagination

Cinema has been a popular source of entertainment with primarily domesticated closures. This paper is an attempt to show, how Hindi cinematic projections, become a social fact and start exercising constraint on the audie...

Effect of Socio Economic Factors on Food and Nutrient Consumption of Rural Women

Women invariably perform the duties of both employees and the housewives. This dual role entails heavy mental and physical effort which often leads to complete exhaustion of women due to over work. .But very often are ov...

Status of Women Education in ‘Char’ Area: A Case Study of Sonitpur District of Assam

The riverine islands of the Brahmaputra river in Assam are locally known as char or chaporis. Char dwellers are generally marginalized people.. The sample of this study is taken using the two-stage random sampling techni...

Download PDF file
  • EP ID EP417066
  • DOI 10.9790/0837-2301102329.
  • Views 67
  • Downloads 0

How To Cite

Dr. Hemasri kumar, G. Nithya (2018). Role of Developmental Programmes for the Tribals in the Nilgiris District. IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 23(1), 23-29. https://europub.co.uk./articles/-A-417066