SOCIO�ECONOMIC AND SOCIO�PERSONAL DATA OF TRIBAL’S OF BULDHANA DISTRICT�AN REQUISITE FOR ASSESSING NUTRITIONAL STATUS

Dr. Mrs. Swati Chande

Volume : VI, Issue : VI, June - 2016

SOCIO�ECONOMIC AND SOCIO�PERSONAL DATA OF TRIBAL’S OF BULDHANA DISTRICT�AN REQUISITE FOR ASSESSING NUTRITIONAL STATUS

Dr. Mrs. Swati Chande

Abstract :

 Tribal population of Buldhana District is 115,000(Revenue division TRTI,Pune)Buldana District falls under Amravati division. It was of profound interest to study the socio–economic and socio–personal aspects of the tribal’s. Socio–economic features directly influence on the nutritional status. Hence socio–economic features like education, occupation, marital status, income, number of family members earnings, land holding, facilities available like Anganwadi, Primary health centers, quality of water were studied. An attempt has been made in the paper to study these features. It was observed that middle and high school education was less. With satisfactory income level debt was lowering economic strata of the population. Tribal adolescent population was gainfully engaged in generating income, meagre land holding encouraged adolescent to work on daily wages. Daily wages and income from agriculture were main sources of income. Tribals form the area had facility of anganwadi, ration shop, public transport, CHC, PHC, RHC and private hospital however tribals from hilly area had to travel a long distance to access the same. Quality of water was potable. Concentrated efforts are required to improve educational levels of tribal’s they should be counseled to utilize technical educational facilities available within the tehsil. Modern techniques of agriculture can be adopted to increase the agricultural production.