Question

What are the social benefits of ITDP in the Bharmaur tribal region?

Answer 1

The process of development of the tribal area of Bharmaur started in the 1970s when Gaddis was included among ‘Scheduled Tribes’. The social benefits derived from ITDP include a tremendous increase in literacy rate, improvement in sex ratio, and decline in child marriage. The female literacy rate in the region increased from 1.88 percent in 1971 to 42.83 percent in 2001. The difference between males and females in literacy level i.e. gender inequality has also declined. The most significant contribution of the tribal sub-plan in the Bharmaur region is the development of infrastructure in terms of schools, health care facilities, potable water, roads, communications, and electricity. The practice of transhumance has decreased and now people migrate to Kangra as wage labourers thereby bringing in new life to their enclosed world.