Topic:Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India.
2) “In India’s developmental journey, tribals have been left behind”. Critically analyse. (250 words)
Why this question:
The question seeks to study the impact of development process on the tribal communities in India.
Key demand of the question:
One has to critically present in what way tribal communities have been on the rear end of receiving benefits of the development stratergy.
Directive:
Critically analyze – When asked to analyse, you have to examine methodically the structure or nature of the topic by separating it into component parts and present them as a whole in a summary. When ‘critically’ is suffixed or prefixed to a directive, one needs to look at the good and bad of the topic and give a fair judgment.
Structure of the answer:
Introduction:
Start introduction by giving some data justifying the statement. Like, overall poverty in India is 21.9%, whereas for tribal population it stands at 46%.
You may even start by briefly describing the distribution of tribal population in India, supported by data.
Body:
- Start by explaining how development has had negative impact on tribals overall socio economic development. For eg. Forced migration, loss of livelihood, displacement, acculturation issues, etc.
- Refer report by Virginius Xaxa committee.
- Add case study and maps to support your discussions above. For eg. Niyamgiri hills-Vedanta group case, Sardar sarovar dam case, Can also add datas on development indicators like MMR,IMR ,Literacy rate ,etc .of the tribal populations on mineral rich regions.
- Have a discussion on the positive impacts of development on tribal population. For eg. Under khanij kshetra kalyan yojana 60% funds of District mineral funds will be spend on areas like health, sanitation etc.
- In way forward show the different measures and recent schemes by Govt. for tribal development such as FRA, PESA, Tribal sub plan approach, Van bandhu scheme, Eklavya scheme,etc.
Conclusion:
Conclude with way ahead.
