Nutritional Status of Adult Women Belonging to Khond, Gadaba and Porja Tribes of Andhra Pradesh

Abstract

In India tribals are neglected a lot, discriminated in terms of income distribution and social status. Most Of them are desperately poor, backward, generally uneducated and lead a hard and miserable life.[1] There are more than 400 tribal communities In India, out of which 75 Primitive Tribal Groups (PTG) have been Identified by the government by 1989.

Tribal women in India are at a great disadvantage due to illiteracy and ignorance. Various research studies on tribal population of India revealed that their diets are nutritionally deficient. There is paucity of information regarding the women of the PTG and hence this investigation was undertaken to study the socio-economic and dietary background and to assess the nutritional status of selected women from three primitive groups of Andhra Pradesh.