Tribal Education as the Torch to Rural Development in India

India is such a country where people of different tastes, languages, religions live. Each of them contributes to the culture of India to make it complete. About 70% of people in India live in village. Most unfortunately after the freedom of India, the rural development in India has been lagging behind than the cities. Development means the all over improvement n a region including the education system, the facilities to improve the socio-economic condition of the people, the transportation and medical treatment facilities etc.

While talking about the lack of rural development, the most critical situation is about the tribal education. In general we can find most of the labors who works in the construction sites, the persons working as security guards, coolies are mostly the rural person who had to leave their education in very early life due to bear the burden of their families. Other reason is that due to the ignorance of their parents about the necessities of studies they lack proper enthusiasm and gets involved in work from very childhood.

The condition is much more pathetic for the tribal people who have been deprived in our society for a very long time. Once they were treated as animals that carry out orders and lives to serve only the people at the upper level of the society. They are the most deprived ones as they were intentionally left apart from the light of education.

In the post freedom situation oaf India many rules were made and steps were taken by the government for their social upliftment. Though the condition has been improved to some extent, but the status of the tribal education in India is still well below the expectation.


The surveys revealed many reasons behind the issue as there is a huge number of dropouts from the school mainly due to the economic condition. They fail to bear the cost of their studies. Besides, there is lack of interest in creating awareness about the necessity of education system. Tribal education is the most powerful weapon that can help in rural development.

There needs modification in the teaching styles too.

Teachers assigned for the projects in rural development must not impose the study on the students. The must be tolerant and caring to make the students realize the joy in studying. In Tribal education English language needs to be stressed so that they can compete with the modern world. Otherwise the purpose will be in vain.

There are groups of kind hearted people, NGO or individuals apart from the government who strives to help the tribal education and consequently the rural development. The NGO volunteers the campaign by visiting the rural India, talking with the people to know their grievances and try to help them. The NGO works in different activities like charity, empowering campaign, service orientation etc. The NGO maintains public relation all over the nation. Their initiatives are often funded by economically strong organizations. The NGO are non government private authorities. To undertake the missions they require huge management structures and staffing. We the citizen of India can contribute for the betterment of our nation by donating them. Unless we participate actively, the Ngo won’t be able to complete 100% of their sacred mission. It is our primary duty to eradicate the illiteracy problem of our children especially for the downtrodden people. As an individual we are nothing. But if we unite with the NGO, we get an already developed stage to perform and thus we can make a difference.