Changing Patterns of Tribals: A Case Study of Bedar Tribe

Abstract

The present paper aims to investigate the socio- economic and occupation status of scheduled tribes in manvi taluk of raichur District of Karnataka state. Random sampling technique was used for the study, , further the results were interpreted with help of analysis. The results reveals that, more than 55% per cent of the sample Respondents are male and 45% percentage are female headed, 29.03 per cent of the respondent of the doing cultivations and agricultural , 30.64% respondents are daily wage workers,09.62 6(09.62%) respondents are Non agriculture activates, 8(12.90%) are in service or employee, 7(11.92%) respondents are house wife's, 4(06.45%) doing other works. majority respondents opined that it was major source of income and as significant for livelihood in the study area. Further, the study indicates that, among gender wise classification. The study also depicts that, among source of the incomes for the Respondents, farming was the primary occupation which contributes for more than 80 per cent of the respondents, there income range was Rs.6000 to Rs.10000 rupees per annum followed by wage labor. The study also makes an attempt to analyze the outstanding loans among the sample respondents in the study area. . This belief is making the Beda tribes to approach the disloyal private money lenders for their credit requirement who charge high interests rates especially for tribals and uneducated people to exploit their money. Hence the government should take inventiveness in order to promote the finical stability among the schedule tribal by offering better banking service by transfer of technology towards the economic development of the individual level and rural community as a whole for the development, as well all know that, development beings within the rural villages itself.