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Only 1.5 per cent of tribals graduates: study

BHUBANESWAR: Orissa may have found itself on radar of international business communities for its rich underground mineral resources. But aborigines those live on the surface are struggling to come to the mainstream. Average literacy rate of 10 tribal communities has been analysed to be abysmally low at 15.35 per cent of their population.

"Status of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Orissa (community wise): Census 2001" which was released on Wednesday says literacy rate in tribal communities is 37.37 per cent of the total population compared to 63.08 per cent literacy in the State-level and 55.53 per cent in case of Scheduled Castes. When it comes to female literacy in tribal communities, the graph takes a further plunge. As low as 23.37 per cent of total tribal women are literates.

An interpretation presented by Director of SCs and STs Research Training Institute A.B Ota says in Mankirdia community only 2.61 per cent women are literates while in seven other communities women literacy has not crossed even 10 per cent.

According to him, only 1.5 per cent of total tribal population in Orissa are graduates.. In three primitive tribes, Mankirdia, Juang and Bondo Poraja, girls are yet to become a graduate.

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