India’s Tribal Schools Fail Their Most Vulnerable Students
While 716 EMRS schools, meant to provide quality education to tribal communities, have been approved, an abysmal 476 are functional. The literacy rate among STs does not exceed 30 per cent as a whole. Among PVTGs, it ranges from the lowest 0 per cent (Jarawas and Sentinelese), to 3.1 among the Shom Pens of the Andaman and Nicobar islands to 29.9 (the highest) among the Porjas of Andhra Pradesh.

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