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Original Research Articles                      Volume : 6, Issue:5, May, 2017

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Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci.2017.6(5): 2181-2185
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2017.605.245


Participation of Tribal Women in the Developmental Programmes for their Livelihood Security
Mareeswaran1*, R. Jansirani2, M. Asokhan, K. Mani3 and M.R. Duraisamy4
1Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology, 2Department of Sustainable Organic Agriculture, 3Department of Agricultural Economics, 4Department of Physical Science and Information Technology, TNAU, Coimbatore, India
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Abstract:

The strategy for tribal development especially on women improvement, betterment, and upliftment to effect their empowerment. The Malayali and Irular tribal women were purposively selected for this study. Based on the highest population in Salem, Namakkal and Coimbatore districts of Tamil Nadu selected for the study. Totally 200 respondents were selected based on the Proportionate Random Sampling method. The developmental programmes are for promoting health, education, economic development, employment, agriculture and horticulture. The tribal women participated in the developmental programmes as per required for their livelihood security. The developmental programmes implemented by government and Non- governmental organization. Above two third of the tribal women were participated in the health care programme (96.50%) followed by Safe drinking water (76.50%) infrastructure development (75.50%) participation of SHGs activities (64.00%) and SSA programme (63.00%).


Keywords: Participation,Tribal Women, Developmental Programmes, Livelihood Security.

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Mareeswaran, P., R. Jansirani, M. Asokhan, K. Mani and Duraisamy, M.R. 2017. Participation of Tribal Women in the Developmental Programmes for their Livelihood Security.Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci. 6(5): 2181-2185. doi: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2017.605.245
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