why do you think development project do not benefit tribal directly?
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Tribal population in Jamalpur block area within the district of Burdwan is mixed in character and settled agriculturists in nature. They maintain their livelihood by undertaking a number of occupations like settled agriculture, industrial and agricultural labour, animal husbandry, fishing, trade and commerce of which handicraft industry is of prime importance. The development programmes involving these tribal peoples were involved with these occupations. However, development process has widened the gap between the rich and the poor. Socially, economically and politically, they have been disposed and dehumanized. Lack of responsive leaders is a major problem in the formulation of development programmes. He need is leadership from among them. But tribal participation and tribal perception are not actually taken into account in the process of tribal development. Development programmes for the tribals are mainly based on wage employment and house building and house repair loan, which take recourse to status quo maintenance giving only side payments to the downtrodden in the game of power politics, power in the forms of wealth and leverage. They have had to succumb to the pressure and pull of market economy and politico-economic leverage of tribal and non-tribal haves and neo-haves. In fact, the development programmes are intended to mitigate the feelings of relative deprivation and to lessen the risk of violent upsurge. The tribal people lack entrepreneurial initiative. Mere management of development programmes would not make tribal development a sustainable one with fair and equitable distribution of income, power and opportunities. To ensure mannature-society symbiotic relationship without generating conflicts between them emphasis should be laid on maximization of creative participation and minimization of socio-economic disorder.