• BIKASH DUTTA
• Md. Mahabat Alam

Fertility trends exhibit much more spatial variation among the states of India, while some of states reaching total fertility rates below 2.0 even as others far behind from the levels above 3.0. Although our national policy has been took forwarded for controlling population growth as well as total fertility. As a result, fertility declining at a slower rate than the others countries in Asia likes China, Thailand etc. But it is also found that spatial variation of fertility trends in India depends also on caste, religion, economic status etc. This paper is an attempt to focus on the pace of fertility change (fertility transition) by using Fertility Transition Index (FTI) after Chaurasia (2013) in terms of possible combinations of different factors as explanations for the tribal community. It is an exploratory exercise.

Fertility trends, fertility transition, total fertility, tribal community, Fertility Transition Index (FTI)

"Fertility Transition of Tribal Women using Fertility Transition Index (FTI): Study on Kankabati Gram Panchayat, Paschim Medinipur, WestBengal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.112-122, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1806627.pdf

"Fertility Transition of Tribal Women using Fertility Transition Index (FTI): Study on Kankabati Gram Panchayat, Paschim Medinipur, WestBengal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp112-122, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1806627.pdf