• Subhalaxmi Barik
• Dr. Sanjukta Das

The objective of this paper is to analyse the education status of tribal with literacy rate, gross enrolment ratio, dropout rates and Gender Parity Index in India with special reference to odisha. The study is based on secondary data from Census of India, 2011. It compares the education status of tribals with others. For this it uses (i) Sopher’s disparity Index, (ii) Co-efficient of Equality and (ii) Gender parity index. The main findings of the study are: i) The literacy rate of male, female and total population of scheduled tribes in the scheduled stats are lower than the non scheduled states. The gross enrolment ratio is higher in class I to V which is 137.2 for ST boys and 136.7 for ST girls. The Gender Parity Index for ST children is almost same as all categories of children except for class XI to XII.

Drop out, Education, Enrolment, Literacy, Tribes

"Issues of Tribal Education in India, with special reference to Odisha", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.330-339, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904A54.pdf

"Issues of Tribal Education in India, with special reference to Odisha", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp330-339, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904A54.pdf