A project to evaluate and develop the poor Tribals and Dalits of India

Tribals and Dalits together constitute 25% of India’s population. Most of them are poor and they mainly live in villages. For centuries they have been victims of stark exploitation and blatant oppression. After the advent of freedom, the Central and State Governments and many N.G.Os are taking yeomen efforts for their amelioration but failed to yield tangible results. The basic reason is that the majority of them are uneducated and trapped under several superstitions. As a result they are intellectually and morally not properly equipped to strive for their holistic development. Reservation benefits granted to these communities are monopolized by their own creamy layer, a nominal minority, and hardly permeate to grass-root level.