Rethink needed on tribal development programmes'

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‘Rethink needed on tribal development programmes'


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KORAPUT: There was a need to rethink the approaches towards a sustainable tribal development in a cultural perspective .This was more felt at a time when most of the tribal development programmes had failed terribly both at the planning and implementation levels, Jagabandhu Samal, retired professor of economics and a renowned researcher on tribal way of life, said here on Sunday. While in some cases, the programmes for them were unrealistic for not touching the roots of their problems, in other cases their skills and their needs were not understood and more importantly their cultural values were ignored.
Development did not happen as specified activities within the boundary of economics. It was a comprehensive and all encompassing process and thus embedded in culture, he added. According to Dr.Samal, the tribal people expressed their cultural identity and distinctiveness in their social and political organization, language, rituals and festivals as well as in their dress pattern, ornaments, technology, art and craft. There was a need of an anthropological approach to tribal development, he added.






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