“Educational Status of Nomadic and De-notified Tribes’ Women in Maharashtra: Challenges and Way Forward”

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