A tribal community in the Constitution of India is known as scheduled tribe (ST) and accounts for 8.6 percent of the total population of the country as per 2011 census. They are spread across all over the country residing mainly in the forest and hilly region. The essential characteristics of these communities are primitive traits, geographical isolation, distinctive culture, shyness of contact with other communities and backwardness. After the independence, many programmes, policies and laws have been introduced by Government for the development of tribal community. This is a worrisome point...

A social problem is any condition or behavior that has negative consequences for large numbers of people and that is generally recognized as a condition or behavior that needs to be addressed. This definition has both an objective component and a subjective component. The social problem is connected to majority of the members of society. In contemporary India, there are several social problems. Though, they are called as social problems, yet, in some problems socio-cultural overtones are more prominent, whereas, in some others, the economic and legal overtones are conspicuous. When a...