Socio-Economic and Human Development Profile of Scheduled Tribes in Kodagu

The tribals live commonly in inaccessible villages or hamlets. A minor percentage of their population has now established in enduring villages as well as in towns and cities. On the whole, as per rough estimates, the noticeable tribal areas consist about 15 percent of the total geographical area of the country. Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes, and denotified tribes represent the weakest section of India‟s deficiency. Habitually, tribal people of India have been outside the purview of the Hindu background. Tribal communities intermingled with the non‐ tribal, caste Hindu communities but principally endured isolated from the social construction. The majority of the household livelihoods are Agriculture. Farming is the primary occupation contributed by the most heads of the sample households. Income from cultivation support majority of the sample population. More than 83 percent of the cultivation has from revenue about below Rs 5000-10000 level. Even daily wage laborers are present in the sample population. There is an essential to place more consideration on educational characteristics of scheduled tribes, where this only can inspire them for forthcoming life. The central and state governments and planners have formulated and implemented various policies aiming at raising the social and economic conditions of the communities such as the Scheduled Tribes (STs) who had remained traditionally backward for historical reasons. This paper examines the socio-economic and human development of the tribes in Kodagu district.