Are Scheduled Tribes Educationally Immobile? A study through Mobility Matrix over Three Generation

In India the development of education is growing in a faster way, but there are some backward groups who are not able to access the advantages of education very aptly. Constitutionally scheduled tribe is one of them. The present investigation is dealing with the scheduled tribes of a backward district of West Bengal namely Dakshin Dinajpur where about 16 percent tribal people are lived. The key objectives of the study are to assess the generation wise educational mobility of scheduled tribes. To fulfil the objectives 280 households are surveyed from where 273 persons are taken as the main respondents (7-24 years old). The mobility matrixes have been developed taking three generations and though it is found that the younger generation is more mobile than the older one, the mobility is confined mostly to the lower level of education.