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Abstract
The tribal societies are isolated society living in compact groups in the forest areas. The national average literacy rate in educational development among tribes is 29%, the highest literacy rate of tribes is 36% in Gujarat (48% male and 24% female) and in Rajasthan literacy rate is just 19.44% (with female rate 4.22% and male rate 33.29%).
Anew dimension envisaged in the role of education in the developmental activities of the country. The economic co-relation and expectations from formal education have been correctly delimited to urban areas. The extension of formal education to rural areas is expected to continue to provide coverage so as to ensure universal literacy and formal education. In that insight the role of education for tribal develop becomes extremely significant.
Today more than 40 million tribal groups require special attention from the government even though they live largely isolated from the national culture. In India the government created so many policies and plans of education and development for tribal groups but there are so many problems also occurred to implement these policies.The objective of the paper is to analyze the trends in literacy rate in Karnataka withregard to region, and gender social groups over the census periods 2001 and 2011 based on secondary data of Census of India.