RELEVANCE OF EDUCATION AND DROPOUT AMONG TRIBAL STUDENTS IN MAYURBHANJ DISTRICT OF ODISHA

This article tries to highlight the dropout rate of primary education of Odisha. The main essence of the article is to explore the situation of dropout of primary education. There are several programs and policies to reduce the dropout, out of the school children and so on but still there are several issues that are left behind. Educational budget has also increased but still the economic status, family back ground, access and equity, quality degeneration, lack of school community relationship, public ? private dichotomy are some of the reasons behind dropout with different plans and policies like Right to Education (RTE), Education for All (EFA), Sarva Shishya Abhijan (SSA) OPEPA, Tribal Welfare Dept. Odisha, SCSTRTI, Odisha etc. It also include Education parameter at district level are discussed and analyzed to track the attention of researchers, policy makers, administrators, and educationist for achieving the target of SSA in the State as well as Mayurbhanj district. The unreached, marginalized, socially excluded groups, adequate resources, linguistic problem are among the dropout. So the ways out are also provided within this article which will be helpful for the education actors. The major reasons influencing school dropouts were found to be household work, lack of parental guidance in studies, socio economic condition of the family, punishment by the teachers etc are main source of dropout children primary school level