Adivasis and Development


 
 
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Adivasis and Development

Adivasis and development:

Forest absolutely crucial to the development of all empires and settled civilization in India. Most medicinal herbs and animal products (wax, lac, honey) and animals themselves (elephants, the main stay of imperial armies), all came from the forest.

·   In addition, the continuation of life depended heavily on forest, that help recharge many of India’s rivers and as in becoming clearer now, crucial to the availability and quality of our air and water . Forests covered the major part of our country till the nineteenth century and the Adivasis had a deep knowledge of access to, as well as control over, most of these vast tracts at least till the middle of the nineteenth century. Forest lands have been cleared for timber and to get land for agriculture and industry. Adivasis have also lived in areas that are rich in minerals and other natural resources. These are taken over for mining and other large industrial projects.

·   Losing their lands and access to the forest means that tribal’s lose their main sources of livelihood and food. Having gradually lost access to their traditional homelands, many Adivasis have migrated to cities in search of work where they are employed for very low wages in local industries or at building or construction sites. They, thus, get caught in a cycle of poverty and deprivation. Many tribal children are malnourished. Literacy rates among tribals are also very low. When Adivasis are displaced from their lands, they lose much more than a source of income. They lose their traditions and customs- a way of living and being. “They took our farming land. They took the cremation ground, temple, well and pond.

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Question : 1

Scheduled Areas’ have been declared in the States of :

Right Option : D
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Question : 2

Adivasis have also lived in areas that are rich in minerals and other ______ resources.

Right Option : B
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Question : 3

Who provide educational facilities to the tribal people .

Right Option : C
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