Education of Tea Tribe Children: A case Study of Udalguri District of Assam
Abstract
Education is considered as a vital tool to fight various challenges in life. The knowledge that is attained through education helps open doors to a lot of opportunities for better prospects in career growth. But unfortunately in India till a large section of people are derived of education on the ground of poverty and gender discrimination. Poverty is the biggest hindrance for attainment of education. In Assam the tea tribes is such a community which is still backward in term of education despite of various effort taken by the government in the field of education. This paper makes an attempt to highlight the problems faced by the tea workers in continuation of education for their children after the primary level of education. The primary data were collected by interacting with 50tea workers of Sheikh tea garden of Udalguri District of Assam with a structure questionnaire.
Keywords: Education, Gender,
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