Professional and Technical Education Scenario of the Scheduled Tribe Population in Malda District, West Bengal

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to analyses the Professional & Technical Education Scenario of the tribal people from 2012 to 2016 years in the Malda district, West Bengal. Professional & Technical education level of the tribal people have been discussed in this paper where educational rates in this level has been focused and analyses and also compared with non-tribal groups (e.g. General, OBC, SC). Some educational problems of the tribal communities have been highlighted to adopt some measures towards improvement of this educational status of scheduled tribe population in Malda district. The study is based on both secondary and primary data. The primary data has been collected form field survey with questionnaire method and interview. The processed data has been finally used for quantitative estimation of the Professional & Technical education scenario of the tribal people and placed through cartographic presentation. It is apparent from the analysis that in Professional & Technical education level male students overtop the female numbers in the majority of the blocks but some blocks are dominated by higher number of female students over the male. In case of this education level of Old Malda, Habibpur, English Bazar, Manikchak, Gazol blocks come in prominence because all these blocks show higher percentage than other blocks in tribal education. The Present of this education status show that non-tribal groups are higher in number than the tribal people in all the levels which gives a bleak view of the tribal education in Malda district and therefore, some possible measures have been suggested.