Supaul Bihar Annual District Plan 2011-12 - nrcddp

CHAPTER VI
TRIBAL SUB PLAN (TSP): 2011 -12
TRIBAL SUB PLAN
INTRODUCTION:
The tribal population of the district is 5219 constituting 0.3 % of the total population of the district. Out of
total Scheduled Tribes (ST) population in the State, 99% reside in the rural areas. Maximum percentage of ST is
in the block of Chattapur, whereas two blocks Pipra and Saraigarh Bhaptiyahi has no ST population.
As per 2001 census, majority of the workers in tribal communities are agricultural labourer. Most of the
cultivators among the Scheduled Tribes are marginal farmers, share croppers and small farmers. The literacy
among the STs is 26.9 % against the overall literacy rate of 37.3% as per 2001 Census. The tribal male and female
literacy rates are41.10% and 12.00%.
Their economy is generally substance and non specialized. They are generally in a state of social, economic
and educational backwardness. The tribal sub plan strategy has been adopted since the beginning of the Fifth Five
Year plan (1974 75).TSPis a strategic policy initiative to secure overall development of the STs and to remove all
socio economic and educational disparities between them and the rest of the population. The Tribal Sub plan
(TSP) approach envisages integrated development of the
Tribal areas, wherein all programmes irrespective of their
sources of funding operate in unison to achieve the common
goal of bringing the area at par with the rest of the state
and to improve the quality of life of the tribal.
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The original approach was oriented towards taking
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up family oriented income generating schemes in the field
of agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry, elimination
of exploitation, human resource development programmes
% of Scheduled Caste % of Scheduled Tribe
through education and training programmes and
infrastructure development programmes. This tribal development approach has now been reoriented to cover
employment cum income generation activities and development of infrastructure incidental thereof.
OBJECTIVES:
The objectives of the TSP are basically of two folds i.e. (i) socio economic development of the Scheduled
Tribes and (ii) protection of tribal against exploitation. Some of the broad objectives of the Eleventh five Year plan
under TSP are as follows:
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