Changing profile of the South Gujarat Tribal Villages

This study takes off from the previous studies conducted in 1987 and 2005 by different Institutes, reporting the prevailing situation in the South Gujarat region, consisting of Vansada, Dharampur, and Kaprada. It finds that there has indeed been a sustaining change in the region – it has freed itself from many characteristics of a backward region like hunger, stress migration, illiteracy and such. The authors feel that most of the economic changes happened because of the development of some sources of irrigation that enabled the villagers to take two crops a year. Exposure to the outside world must have changed other mentalities like giving up alcoholism and stressing education for children.