International Research Journal of Education and Technology

Various education policies and government initiatives has been focused to improve the literacy rate of the tribal communities. After sixty- four years of independence the tribal people are still lagging behind from the development basically in the education field. Still high drop outs and illiteracy rate is high among the tribal in comparison to other communities. In recent study it has been found that there is 70.9% of the drop out among the tribal. This paper deals  Illiteracy is the root cause of backwardness of the STs in Andhra Pradesh. Through various schemes and their expenditures the government has been making serious effort for improving educational standards of them.

KEY WORDS: Tribal’s, Education, Expenditure,  Intermediate,  College.