Note: This article has published in edited book entitled “Women
Education: Issues and Challenges in Modern World”.
Citation:
Madane, U. (2018). Educational Status Of Nomadic And
De-Notified Tribal Women In Maharashtra: Challenges and Way Forward. In V.
Singh (Ed.), Women Education: Issues and Challenges in Modern World (I,
pp. 229–246). Satyam Law International, New Delhi.
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Education is an important need to live a better
life in modern world. It is necessary to get success and happy life just like
food is necessary for the healthy body.
Education develops the personality, provide a physical
and mental standard, and transform people’s living status, but it is not seen
in the case of NT-DNTs who are totally deprived of the mainstreaming education and
their women are the tripled deprived of
education because of discrimination based on Caste, Class and gender in a modern era too. Largely’ NT-DNTs women are the
illiterate and they have the poor access to education due to the problem of livelihood
security and sustenance, unawareness of parent regarding the education,
parents’ perception towards the education, which does not give the guaranty of
livelihood and even their thinking about the educated child that he/she will
not get in traditional livelihood activity after completion of education etc. In
the era of Liberalization, Privatization,
and Globalization, they are not able to sustain their traditional occupation
which is leading them to the starvation, therefore they are trying to
engage maximum people in the traditional livelihood activities mostly which are
leading to the community women and it is
the reason of deprived of education.
Nomadic lifestyle and perception of
civilized society towards the NT-DNTs’ women and community deprived them of the education. Perception of the
hooligans of villages towards the unmarried women of NT-DNTs who are in always
in wandering nature without any housing
security is leading to child marriage
which is also the pushing girls far away from the education. Lack of the
political leadership leads exclusion at
policy and development programs level. Yet, there is no permanent solution for
the education of the NT-DNTs from the government side. Whatever government did
for the educating NT-DNTs, it's
not based on their requirement and based on a proper
study of these groups. Due to such condition, the rate of the literacy among
the DNTs is very less than the other population and the rate of literacy of
women among the NT-DNTs is very less than men of NT-DNTs.
Uttam Madane
12.06.2018
