Pre-and Post-Matric Scholarships Utilize in Scheduled Tribes Students: Sustainable of Education Schemes Beneficiaries

This paper discusses the scheduled tribes (ST) students for government scholarship schemes improvement in sustain higher education. Education is considered as the key determinant for formation of functioning capabilities and enhancing choices and freedom. Without basic literacy and education, people cannot have requisite skills and knowledge for functional capabilities. They also cannot have freedom to choose the life they value most. This consequently Education functionally empowers people and enables them to make informed choices about their lives, seize opportunities and exercise freedom to achieve among alternatives, what is best for them. Many schools in tribal parents areas suffer from high dropout rates. Children either never enroll or attend for the first three to four years of primary school, only to lapse into illiteracy later. The attrition rate is quite strong at various levels of the educational system thereafter. The first step in the education ladder is enrolment, where performance is high for most social groups, except Scheduled Tribes Students .The importance of education as one of the most powerful means of bringing about socio-economic development of the Scheduled Tribes cannot be over-emphasized. The Education Equal access to education for Scheduled Tribes children‟s will be ensured. Special measures will be taken to eliminate discrimination, universalize education, eradicate illiteracy, create a social justice sensitive educational system, increase enrolment and retention rates of Scheduled Tribes children‟s and improve the quality of education to facilitate life-long learning as well as development of occupation/vocation/technical skills by Scheduled Tribes children‟s. The scheme of Pre-Metric Scholarships is demand driven which is implemented through the State Governments as this is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme. This scheme is open to all ST students and is given to enable them to pursue higher studies at Post Matriculation level including technical and professional studies. The objectives of the study To Examine beneficiaries under the Scheme of Pre and Post- Metric Scholarship for Scheduled Tribes students in the country along with To recognition of umbrella schemes for education of Scheduled Tribes students allocations to schemes beneficiaries States .The study is based on secondary sources. The data has been collected from census of India (2011), Annual Reports of Ministry of Tribal Affairs and the Reports of MHRD and published and unpublished records of Government ,Qualitative data is collected regarding Scholarships The tables is used to show the literacy status of tribal‟s and all social groups of India.