Social Transformation among Schedule Tribal Communities of Mountain Regions: Myth or Reality ? - Prakhar Puranik Sharda University School of Law

2. Yes! We are in favour that Social
Transformation among schedule Tribal
communities of Mountain Regions is a
Reality so our points are :-

3. Conditions of India
• India is a country with highly rigid caste-
based hierarchal structure.
• It has ascending orders of privileges and
descending order of disabilities.
• It has overwhelming majority in the Country
which are still backward - socially,
economically, educationally, and politically.

4. No Development Have been seen so Far
• A lot of development programmes and
policies have been formulated for the overall
upliftment of these weaker sections.
• But no major breakthroughs have been
achieved so far.

5. Caste System
• India is having a rigid caste system which
divides the Indian society into upper castes
and lower castes on the basis of birth.
• When we peep into the past of the role and
status of the Tribals in the mountain regions,
no major changes have so far been seen.

6. Reasons for transformation :-
• The quality of life of tribal people during pre-
independence period was more deplorable and their main
occupation was hunting, gathering of wood and forest
products and primitive shifting cultivation.
• Due to destruction of forest and non availability of proper
facilities, tribal people were forced to lead a poor quality
of life.
• After independence with the adaptation of Indian
constitution in 1950 special attention was given for the
upliftment of the tribal people under the ‘’article 48’’,it
was mandatory on the part of the state government to
make all efforts to improve economic, social, and
educational standard of the tribal people.

7. Continued...
• Due to the welfare programmes tribal
communities also made themselves conscious
about their own clans upliftment.
• Now tribals are engaged in struggle for survival.
They seek identity, autonomy equality and
empowerment. They are moving out of
ancestral lands to participate in all institution of
state. All tribes or clans have their own unique
cultures including language.

8. Government Initiatives
• The 1950 national Constitution of India legally
abolished the practice of untouchability and
provided measures for positive discrimination in
both educational institutions and public services
for Dalits and other social groups who lie within
the caste system.
• These are supplemented by official bodies such
as the National Commission for Scheduled
Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

9. Aim of Our Presentation
• The primary goal of us is to bring the actual
picture and status of the people residing in
the Mountain regions.
• There is a need to critically analyze the
problems of these people in general and to
find out the actual reasons behind it.

10. Our Research
• Department of Sociology, School of Social
Sciences, Uttarakhand Open University is
organizing a two days National Seminar
Sponsored by ICSSR on 10-11th October, 2014
at Nainital. It gives us the immense pleasure
if you will do a valuable research findings
with other scholars to enrich their existing
knowledge in the foresaid theme of the
National seminar.

11. THANK YOU...
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