National Tribal Talent Pool: Opportunities and Way Forward

Abstract

India has the second-largest tribal population after Africa, and Schedule Tribes account for over 9% of the country's population, with over 705 identified STs now existent. The Ministry of Tribal Affairs is making far too many efforts to help tribal people with their economic, medical, and educational growth, and has also launched a number of initiatives to manage these enormously complicated undertakings, notably in higher education. Another important purpose of the Indian Government is to nurture indigenous young who, for whatever reasons, are unable to exhibit their skills on an appropriate platform. This article attempts to focus on the core premise of government initiatives for developing youthful talent for which an informal approach of employing Boolean operators was applied for the primary database searching as a result of which numerous research articles, public platforms, news articles and governmental portals were reviewed. Based on the study, it is concluded that the tribal people need to be educated about all government programs in order to create a strong bridge between the primitive tribal groups and the society. Initiatives such as the National Talent Pool will help with this, and young people of indigenous descent may facilitate the same.