Occupational Aspirations of Scheduled Tribes Post Graduate Students

Abstract

It is universal fact that every man wants to do some work or other. He cannot sit idle. He has to live and to support his dependents, if any. Therefore a man works for subsistence and for security. The scheduled tribes of our society are also engaged in many occupations like forestry and food gathering, animal husbandry, agriculture, bonded labor, household industry and other occupations. But today as a result of unique changes in various fields, the occupational structure of scheduled tribes is also changing. It is also due to expansion of higher education among scheduled tribes today the acquisition of education, particularly higher education, can be seem as a major avenue for occupational mobility, depending upon occupational aspirations.