Health and Educational Status of Scheduled Tribes In Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh, India

Ecologically, the tribal households are far from homogenous; they display a diversity of high order. The areas of tribal concentration have been generally described as the forest and hilly areas of the country. Their ignorance and the long- sightedness of the money lenders play with the tribal lives. With less income they take less nutrient food and it leads to health problems among scheduled tribal. This paper addresses the health and educational status Ecoloscheduled tribes in the study area .Under this section we had dealt with literacy levels, dropouts, reasons for dropouts, distance of educational institutions and health characteristics like drinking water facilities, type of fuel used for cooking, gender and age wise classification of diseased persons, health assistance from government authorities, distance to the first –Aid facility, awareness about AIDS and so on. Before speaking about the development of Scheduled Tribes, it is important to study their background characteristics and profile. This Chapter is addressed to study the educational and health status of the Scheduled Tribes in the study area. This Chapter is namely Educational and health features of the sample population.