Challenging approaches towards the livelihood pattern of Raji tribe in Uttarakhand

In the digital era when globalized world has become more interconnected and livelihood pattern of most of the people are wielded by technologies and also have tendency to incline on new technologies in different field of livelihood and direct dependency on natural resource for livelihood also decreased, the vulnerable primitive tribal groups till now directly depend on natural resources for their livelihood and live in a primitive way. The Raji tribe, one of the vulnerable primitive tribes among 75 tribes declared by the Indian Government, are inhabited in the hilly forest region of Uttarakhand. Few decades ago this tribe was nomadic and cave dweller. Till now they depend on hunting, gathering, fishing and primitive agriculture for livelihood. Their stagnant stage of population growth, low literacy rate, poverty, and scarcity of natural resources (due to implementation of forest act)compelled them to abolish demographically and also their tribal identity, livelihood and culture are on the verge of extinction. There is a large gap between the tribal territory and rest of the advanced earth. So, it is necessary to focus on how the tribal people face the challenges for their livelihood and try to adapt with the modern and globalized world for survival that examination help to understand the tensions, ambiguities and challenges among livelihood patterns of tribal people to identify the problems from grass-root level and find out the livelihood opportunities of Raji tribe for sustainable development.