There seems widespread agreement that pastoral mode of subsistence is in congruent with ways of formal schooling. Thus, schooling in pastoral Karrayu is seen to be characterized by low enrollment and high dropouts, more so for females. Irrespective of current policy that committed to offer eight years of primary education; only few are completing even the first five years mandatory primary schooling for permanent literacy and numeracy. To greater or lesser extent, sociocultural factors seem to be at play either for not sending or for withdrawal of school children. Thus unless their mode of...