The Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation, released a first-of-its-kind Tribal Development Report-2022.
It looks at the status of tribal communities at an all-India level and in central India.
This analyses with respect to livelihoods, agriculture, natural resources, economy, migration, governance, human development, gender, health, education, art, and culture.
India’s tribal communities form 8.6% of the country’s population according to the 2011 Census.
Central India is home to 80% of the tribal communities in the country.
Of the 257 Scheduled Tribe districts, 230 (90%) are either forested or hilly or dry.
But they account for 80 % of India’s tribal population.
They have been pushed farther away from alluvial plains and fertile river basins into the harshest ecological regions of the country like hills, forests, and drylands.