Abstract

Empowerment means self competence and self efficiency with self awareness for development. Women in a tribal society play a vital role in their social, cultural, economic and religious ways of life and are considered as an economic asset in their society. But they are still lagging far behind in the different walks of life like education, employment, good health and economic empowerment etc. so there was need to work on empowerment of tribal women. For the present study various variables will be selected for collection of primary and secondary data. Main aims of the study are to integrate socio-economic activities with concern for health and environment protection, tribal women’s cultural contexts, invest science and technology in women s education and empowerment programmes to enable them to acquire scientific temper and to enable their family and community to engage in the process of sustainable development through the ‘reflection-action’ process, find out changes in the socio-economic conditions of women, find Out different economic activities which have been successful/unsuccessful in empowering women, empower the tribal women to become self-confident, to unite the women for community welfare and to make the women economically self sufficient. This study would provide independent economic and social empowerment of deprived tribal women of Dharampur taluka.