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Improving Livelihoods of Tribal Community Through Microfinance: The Experience of Wadi Project in Koraput, Odisha


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Tribals in India face new challenges, as the traditional means of obtaining their livelihoods are being endangered. The issues of their livelihood need to be addressed by appropriate public policy choice. An attempt has been made in this paper to evaluate, on the basis of both primary and secondary sources of data, the role of the Wadi project financed by NABARD involving Self-Help Groups as an alternative avenue to the livelihoods of tribes of Koraput district in Odisha.

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Wadi Project, Agro-Horticulture Development, Tribal Livelihoods.
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S. N. Tripathy
Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India

Abstract


Tribals in India face new challenges, as the traditional means of obtaining their livelihoods are being endangered. The issues of their livelihood need to be addressed by appropriate public policy choice. An attempt has been made in this paper to evaluate, on the basis of both primary and secondary sources of data, the role of the Wadi project financed by NABARD involving Self-Help Groups as an alternative avenue to the livelihoods of tribes of Koraput district in Odisha.

Keywords


Wadi Project, Agro-Horticulture Development, Tribal Livelihoods.

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