Socio-economic status of UG and PG scheduled tribes students in Khandesh region of Maharashtra State

The present paper aims to investigate the socio-economic status of scheduled tribes in Khandesh region of Maharashtra state. The primary data was used with the help of structured questionnaire for 439 Scheduled Tribe UG and PG student respondents during the year 2014; further the results were interpreted with help of tabular analysis. The results reveal that, the majority of the sample respondents are the tribe of bhill community (more than 51%), more than 94 per cent of the sample households are male headed and more than 62% family heads are illiterate. The study also depicts that, among source of the incomes for the sample households, farming was the primary occupation which contributes for more than 90 per cent of the sample households, their monthly income was below ₹3000. In the study area, it was found that, out of 2600 persons 1142 (more than 43%) are illiterates from 439 households and also result revealed that, this is the first generation entering towards higher education.