Tribal Children

Reports of severe malnourishment among Sahriya tribal children has sent alarm bells ringing in Baran in south Rajasthan, a district that borders Madhya Pradesh.

Two tribal children who had gone missing a few days ago were found dead in a dense forest area in this central Kerala district, police said here on Sunday. They are suspected to have fallen from a tree while collecting honey.

A tribal woman who is a mother of 11 children was driven out of the house in Odisha's Keonjhar district by her husband for undergoing tubectomy operation, a permanent method of contraception, against his wish.

A science project by students of predominantly tribal Jawhar in Maharashtra's Palghar district has been selected for presentation at the 30th National Children Science Congress 2022, an official said on Thursday.

Three minor children belonging to a tribal community were allegedly beaten by a man for entering his paddy field in Kerala's hill district of Wayanad, police said on Tuesday.

The Bombay High Court on Monday said welfare schemes for the tribal population are only on paper and sought to know from the Maharashtra government what steps it has taken to prevent deaths of children due to malnutrition in the tribal regions.

The Bombay High Court on Monday warned the Maharashtra government of stern action if there are any more deaths of children due to malnutrition in the state's tribal belt.

More than 750 unmarked graves have been found near a former Catholic boarding school for indigenous children in western Canada, a tribal leader said Thursday, the second such shock discovery in a month.

Sandhya, the first and only graduate of Chinnampathy tribal village in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore, has stepped up to fill up the educational void in the lives of children caused by the shutting down of schools due to the COVID-induced lockdown.

A tribal woman in Maharashtra's Thane district, recipient of a national bravery award for children, on Wednesday returned the honour because her family could not get ration at Public Distribution System (PDS) shops.

The Ministry of Tribal Affairs has been funding two schemes of Government-run residential schools for tribal students -- Eklavya Model Residential School (EMRS) and Construction of Ashram School.

A school at Godibari near Chandka in Odisha provides education to tribal children through story-telling, songs, dance, book reading and skits.

In a case of mass kidnapping, a group of over 100 people from a village in Madhya Pradesh allegedly kidnapped 38 tribal women and children from Rajasthan on suspicion that their men were involved in stealing bikes, the police said on Thursday.

In an attempt to help people amid the pandemic, Relu Vasave, an Anganwadi worker from Maharashtra's Nandurbar rows 18 kilometers to interior villages every day to attend to tribal children below six years and expecting mothers.

There is massive anger in north Maharashtra's Jalgaon over the murder and alleged rape of four minor siblings - two girls aged 13 and 6 years, and two boys aged 1 and 8 years old. The children from the tribal community were allegedly hacked to death with an axe by unidentified accused on October 15, the police said.

Reports of severe malnourishment among Sahriya tribal children has sent alarm bells ringing in Baran in south Rajasthan, a district that borders Madhya Pradesh.

Two tribal children who had gone missing a few days ago were found dead in a dense forest area in this central Kerala district, police said here on Sunday. They are suspected to have fallen from a tree while collecting honey.

A tribal woman who is a mother of 11 children was driven out of the house in Odisha's Keonjhar district by her husband for undergoing tubectomy operation, a permanent method of contraception, against his wish.

A science project by students of predominantly tribal Jawhar in Maharashtra's Palghar district has been selected for presentation at the 30th National Children Science Congress 2022, an official said on Thursday.

Three minor children belonging to a tribal community were allegedly beaten by a man for entering his paddy field in Kerala's hill district of Wayanad, police said on Tuesday.

The Bombay High Court on Monday said welfare schemes for the tribal population are only on paper and sought to know from the Maharashtra government what steps it has taken to prevent deaths of children due to malnutrition in the tribal regions.

The Bombay High Court on Monday warned the Maharashtra government of stern action if there are any more deaths of children due to malnutrition in the state's tribal belt.

More than 750 unmarked graves have been found near a former Catholic boarding school for indigenous children in western Canada, a tribal leader said Thursday, the second such shock discovery in a month.

Sandhya, the first and only graduate of Chinnampathy tribal village in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore, has stepped up to fill up the educational void in the lives of children caused by the shutting down of schools due to the COVID-induced lockdown.

A tribal woman in Maharashtra's Thane district, recipient of a national bravery award for children, on Wednesday returned the honour because her family could not get ration at Public Distribution System (PDS) shops.

The Ministry of Tribal Affairs has been funding two schemes of Government-run residential schools for tribal students -- Eklavya Model Residential School (EMRS) and Construction of Ashram School.

A school at Godibari near Chandka in Odisha provides education to tribal children through story-telling, songs, dance, book reading and skits.

In a case of mass kidnapping, a group of over 100 people from a village in Madhya Pradesh allegedly kidnapped 38 tribal women and children from Rajasthan on suspicion that their men were involved in stealing bikes, the police said on Thursday.

In an attempt to help people amid the pandemic, Relu Vasave, an Anganwadi worker from Maharashtra's Nandurbar rows 18 kilometers to interior villages every day to attend to tribal children below six years and expecting mothers.

There is massive anger in north Maharashtra's Jalgaon over the murder and alleged rape of four minor siblings - two girls aged 13 and 6 years, and two boys aged 1 and 8 years old. The children from the tribal community were allegedly hacked to death with an axe by unidentified accused on October 15, the police said.