Volume : 9, Issue : 11, NOV 2023

ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR EMPOWERING BIRHOR OF CHHATTISGARH.

DR. RASHMI KUJUR, DR. SANJAY KUMAR SINGH, PROF. NISTER KUJUR, RESHMA BANJARE, JUSTIN DEVARAJ

Abstract

In India, there are 75 PVTGs; the government is trying to empower women through various programs. Due to a lack of literacy, infrastructure, and poor economic conditions, they are unable to be empowered. The Chhattisgarh government is also trying to empower women through various programs; one of the most recent is the Mahtari Vandana Yojana. The Chhattisgarh state has five PVTGs; Birhor is one of them. The Birhor tribe is very small in population and has a unique folk culture. The paper mainly examines the socio-demographic profile, economic opportunities, and challenges of Birhor tribal women concerning the study area. In the study, a descriptive research design was used, and the data was collected from both primary and secondary resources, such as the primary data collected from Bagicha and Duldula Blocks of Jashpuir District from the villages Peta, Janakpur, Shivrinarayan, Dumartoli, and Jhargaon, respectively. The secondary data from different government reports, etc. A sample of size 148 was selected according to the Krejice-Morgan table, and a random sampling method was used for data collection. The findings of the study are that the sociodemographic conditions are very poor, and there are different opportunities and challenges for the economic development of Birhor women.

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