{"id":2569,"date":"2019-01-07T13:20:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T07:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2019-01-07T13:20:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T07:50:58","slug":"west-bengal-tribals-battling-food-scarcity-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/west-bengal-tribals-battling-food-scarcity-study\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal tribals battling food scarcity: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_68 ez-toc-wrap-center counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >What's Inside this Blog!<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/west-bengal-tribals-battling-food-scarcity-study\/#Relevant_For_Sociology_Paper_2\" title=\"Relevant For Sociology Paper 2:-\">Relevant For Sociology Paper 2:-<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/west-bengal-tribals-battling-food-scarcity-study\/#Premature_deaths\" title=\"Premature deaths:-\">Premature deaths:-<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Relevant_For_Sociology_Paper_2\"><\/span>Relevant For Sociology Paper 2:-<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Two months after the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/tag\/235-81\/west-bengal\/?utm=bodytag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>West Bengal\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>government denied any food scarcity as a possible cause of death of seven persons from a tribal community, a survey report has identified \u201cfood scarcity in varying degrees\u201d in about 31% of tribal households in West Bengal.<\/li>\n<li>The study titled \u2018An Inquiry into the world of the Adivasis of West Bengal\u2019, conducted by Professor Amartya Sen\u2019s Pratichi Institute and Asiatic Society, will be released in Kolkata on Monday.<\/li>\n<li>The survey was conducted in 1,000 tribal households to ascertain living conditions, health and education.<\/li>\n<li>West Bengal is home to a over five million\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/tag\/62913-1510\/tribals\/?utm=bodytag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>tribals,\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>with 6% of the India\u2019s tribal population of 100 million. But in many areas, tribals of the State are \u201cfar behind\u201d in terms of human development. One area, which has been a matter of contention in recent months after the death of seven tribals in a span of 15 days in November, is scarcity of food. The preliminary survey report claimed that \u201cnearly one third [31%] of the surveyed households\u201d reportedly faced \u201cfood scarcity in varying degrees\u201d in the past year.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c\u2026While some households faced acute hunger only in some months (August\u2013October), in many cases, people had half-meals only twice a day. Also, in some cases, adult members reportedly ate only once a day. Also, in some cases, adult members [of households] reportedly ate only once a day,\u201d the report noted. Most of the families surveyed could hardly afford animal protein or pulses.<\/li>\n<li>In addition \u201cpoverty-born vices like alcoholism [and] the fragility of the public health system\u2026seemed to have resulted in a much lower life chances among the Adivasis than their more privileged co-citizens,\u201d the report noted. Degradation of forest and environmental degradation are cited as two more reasons for \u201creduced availability of natural nutrients\u201d resulting in early deaths.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Premature_deaths\"><\/span>Premature deaths:-<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The report indicated that the number of deaths reported to have occurred in the surveyed households, in the year preceding the survey, \u201cwas 52, among which 48 [92%] were premature deaths\u201d and only four were due to old age.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe average age of the [tribal] persons who died was 58 years, which is much shorter than the life expectancy at birth\u201d (70 years in West Bengal).<\/li>\n<li>The survey, a synopsis of which has been accessed by\u00a0<em>The Hindu<\/em>, is conducted in 10 districts of the State, of which three were formerly undivided.<\/li>\n<li>The work participation rate [WPR] is higher among the Adivasis in Bengal \u201cforcing the children of schoolgoing age to discontinue their studies in order to fend [for] themselves and support the families,\u201d the report noted. According to the Census of 2011, while WPR is 39% and 49% in Bengal and India, respectively, \u201cthe corresponding figures for Adivasis were 49% and 47%,\u201d indicating the participation of more children.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOur survey found that both the children and elderly people were also involved in earning, and that the rate of transition in education was low\u2026\u201d the report noted.<\/li>\n<li>However, a higher rate of work participation has not contributed to a better living standard, indicated the survey, which followed a \u201cmixed-method approach\u201d combining quantitative and qualitative data. In the area of health and education, too, tribal communities are far behind the rest of State\u2019s population.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA substantial number of\u2026children whose immunisation cards were available were not fully immunised: of 36 children, only 21 (58%) were, as recorded in the cards, found to be fully immunised.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Moreover, 44% of households do not have access to toilets and nearly two-thirds of the households had no drainage system, the report noted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevant For Sociology Paper 2:- Two months after the\u00a0West Bengal\u00a0government denied any food scarcity as a possible cause of death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[540,390],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sociology-optional","tag-sociology","tag-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}