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Abstract
Scheduled Castes along with scheduled Tribes and denotified tribes constitute the weaker sections of India’s population from all angles. Though tribals are sons of the soil and citizens of the country they are born to grow as the children of nature. The tribal population in India accounting for 8.6 percent of the total population of India as per 2011 census. Tribals live in all states and Union territories with the exception of Punjab, Delhi, Pondichery and Chandigarh. They are deprived of many civic facilities and isolated from modern way of living. Tribal societies are mostly traditional and are the cross roads today as they are pushed to modernity on one side and they are inclined to maintain their identity as a tribe.
Women play a crucial role in the Tribal societies by earning income to supplement the family income and also by taking care of children and household management. Tribal women are constrained to play dual role in the Tribal societies.