Adivasis in Several Odisha, Jharkhand Districts Earn Less Than Rs 1 Lakh Annually
A survey shows that the annual daily wages of an Adivasi household are around Rs 31,000.
Tribals in several districts of Odisha and Jharkhand earn less than Rs 1 lakh annually with the monthly income of households in, at least, eight districts in both states less than Rs 6,000, according to a survey.
The 2021 survey, done by PRADAN, an NGO working with and for tribal communities for the past four decades, and the Ford Foundation covered 5,000 households focussed on ‘tribal-dominated’ administrative blocks under the Intensive Tribal Development Program (ITDP). The basic sampling unit was a village with 20 households.
The report covered every aspect of livelihood and explained in detail the differences between Adivasi and non-Adivasi villages and the difference between Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) and tribals.