Tribes and Education: Understanding the Growing Problems and Challenges Faced by Tribal Population of Jharkhand

Abstract

India is a country of rich heritage, diversity and, culture and it consists of people from 
different culture, language, religion, sects, race coexisting together and among them are 
aboriginals who are tribal people. Jharkhand is a land of physical and human resources. But the 
tribal people here remain in the periphery of progress and civilisation. There are many reasons 
behind it. Government and other non-governmental organizations are engaged in welfare 
programme and policies but those are not sufficient. National Education Policy 2020 also 
empathetically addresses the problems regarding tribal education and also proposes some 
significant inclusive ideas. But the problems must be uprooted from its origin. The fourth goal of 
sustainable development focuses on equality, equity and inclusion in quality education. But until 
and unless the tribal people who consist one third of the population will face the light of 
mainstream education, the country cannot progress nor the dream of an inclusive society will be 
actualised. However, qualitative in approach, this paper aims at finding out the issues that are 
hindering educational progress of the tribal population of Jharkhand and also the paper 
suggests some possible measures to be adopted to cope with the issues regarding their 
education. The data have been collected through secondary sources namely census report and 
research papers. In the era of globalization where we are talking about the development and 
upliftment of all, the tribal communities are still lagging behind. One cannot talk of development 
without including the Aboriginal community.