More than 80% of the tribal people are illiterate. Tribals, who are far away from the contact of the civilized world have no faith in formal educational organization. Many of them do not know anything about education, schools, colleges, universities, degrees, etc. They feel no urge to educate their children. Since most of the tribal are poor, education appears to be a luxury for them. Tribal people who are engaged in agriculture want their little children to work along with them either in the fields or at home. The illiterate parents do not consider it as their primary responsibility to give education to their children. The medium of instruction is another hindrance to the promotion of education amonf the tribes. Most of the tribal languages do not have a script of their own. Hence the children are obliged to learn things in a language which is foreign to them. Even in tribal areas then number of tribal teachers is very less and hence communication problem always arises between the students and the teachers. The existing curriculum, as experts rightly have pointed out, is not suited and has little relevance to the tribal people.
