ABSTRACT
Multiple schemes and programmes are functional today for the holistic development of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (P.V.T.G.) of the country. However, the literature indicates that the development schemes have not significantly impacted these groups even after four and half decades of special status. Their traditional lifestyle, worldview and indifferent response to development interventions have been identified as significant causes of backwardness. Such analysis implicitly emphasises the gap between the response of tribal and non-tribal communities to development interventions. There is a tendency to ignore the progress made by these communities with the interventions of state and civil society organisations and people’s aspirations for positive development. Focus is needed on such aspects to explore the possibilities for further development interventions. This chapter examines how people aspire to participate in activities which assure change in their lives. It takes education as a reference point to examine the processual part where all the stakeholders interact at a dynamic juncture to reap and maximise the benefits.
