what is the livelihood of tribes living near sanjay gandhi biological park
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The Sanjay Gandhi National Park has huge greenery area including biodiversity in nature. The inhabitants of this forest are the tribal people they were dependent on the resources they had already received from the forest. Slowly slowly they moved towards the farming. During the British period the forest dwellers were mostly depending on forest resources for their livelihoods. They used to collect various forest based products and fuel woods from nearby forest. But as the times changed, the types of their livelihood were changed. And they started searching for new ways to survive. As their land has failed to support their family’s food requirements they are forced to look at alternative means for supplementing their livelihoods. The forest rules pushing them back and forced them leave their farms because they don’t have proper documents of their lands.The emergence of urbanization and market economy has distributed the old pattern and new model of livelihood. In course of time slowly this forest got degraded because of lots of reasons. The rise of industrialization, intervention of outsiders and rise of population became major threat for these communities. The forest authorities were managing the forest. Apart from forest resources tribals used to do some cultivation in forest land like they cultivate some vegetables and forest fruit plants. Mostly it was a system of mono cropping. In the initial days it was only agriculture, which gave them an alternative source of livelihood. But the intervention of forest rules and regulation as well as small land holding size and not having a modern technology failed to meet the rising needs to live a better life. Some tribals in this area now using gas for cooking they left behind their natural way of cooking food. They have engaged themselves in various small industries in their locality. Most of the youth in this area have engaged themselves in non-agriculture sector.Tribal women known for their deep association with the forests are an economically active lot but nevertheless, they suffer disproportionately more from illiteracy, poverty and social abuse. Mostly young girls and women are seiling wild fruits in this locality. They sell Watermelon, Temrin, Cucumber, Banana, Ber, Guava etc. They are selling this fruits at Rupees 10 or 20 as per price decided by them. They do not have permission to put their own stalls or shops in this area. They earn from tourists and visitors. For tribal women empowerment they engaged themselves in Self-Help groups. Some women are doing home made business in handicrafts and selling women cloths. The men and young boys doing work as housekeeping, Gardener or watchmen at park and some are doing work outside of the park but no one has permanent jobs all are working as temporary labor on contract basis.
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