Vol. 6, Issue 11, Part G (2020)

This paper made an attempt in examining and understanding the level of literacy and educational attainment among the Iruliga tribal community in Karnataka, India. The paper discusses the present scenario of literacy level of Iruliga Tribal community as well as the role of government institutions and their programme enhances the link between education and development. Various programmes and schemes have been taken initiated in for the educational up liftment of tribal children so far few of them have reached them. As many programs have not reached them since it has no contextualised and localised Many of the programmes did not benefit the tribal community because the programmes were not contextualized and localized considering regional, geographical and physical differences and barriers. The Other reasons of not getting the benefits by the programs to the tribal’s are lack of political will, corruption, and lesser attention on development of tribal areas. The paper highlights the need for special focus on tribal education, which includes context specific traditional and innovative interventions.