Socially Deprived Girls

By
Femila K
B.Ed first year
ROLL NO:44
SOCIALLY DEPRIVED GIRLS

 Social deprivation is the reduction or

prevention of culturally normal interaction
between an individual and the rest of society.
This social deprevation is included in a broad
network of correlated factors that contribute
to social exclusion; these factors include
mental illness; poverty;poor education and
low economic status.
Socially deprived girls are

 Denied of human rights .

 Considered as untouchable .
 Culturally isolated .
 Literacy rate is low.
 Physically segregated.
 Economically poor.
 Health issues.
 In Indian society Brahmins are considered to
be the upper caste people and Shudras are
treated as lower caste . Even among the
lower class people Parayar and Pallar also
considered as lower caste.They are treted as
untochable and marginalised in the society.
They are denied of human rights and remain
socially and culturally isolated. Lower caste is
also known as Scheduled caste.
 Scheduled Caste

DALITS TRIBALS
 DALITS

 Dalits does not refer to a caste but suggests a

group who are in a state of oppression social
disability and who are helpless and poor.They
are now called as Scheduled castes.
 Physical segregation of their settlements is
common in villages .
 They were forced to live in the most
unhygienic and inhabitable conditions.
Dalit Girls and Their Problems

 Dalit girls state of affairs is worse than dalit

boys. They are considered as burden for their
families.
 Married at young age due to poverty(13 or 14)
 Take care of young siblings.
 Work in field and farms of upper class people.
 As they were uneducated they don’t know
merits and demerits.
 Frequent deliveries leads to poor health.
 They become anemic due to malnutrition.
 Two square meals a day is denied in their life.
They get porridge in the morning and solid food
in the noon.
 Often get sick due to unhygienic lifestyle.
 Generally not sent to schools as a result of which
they remain illiterates.
 Rural dalit gilrs work in agricultural fields and
urban dalit girls take up sanitary work like toilet
cleaning sweeping etc.
WAYS TO SOLVE THEIR ISSUES
 Basic amenities are made
available.
 Provide food through
rationshops.
 Provide road facilities.
 Establish primary health
care center and elemntary
school within 2km distance.
 High school within 5km
distance.
 Actions against sexual
harassment
 Free textbook; two set of
uniform dress; free
education should be
provided.
 Free nutrition mid-day
meals.
 Free bus pass.
 If there is no high school
within a distance of 5km
free hostel facilities should
be provided.
 Reservation of seats.
 Tribes

 A tribe is a group of people who live and work

together in a shared geographical area. A
tribe has a common culture; dialect and
religion. They also have a strong sense of
unity. The tribe is usually headed by a chief.
 A tribe can be a collection of families or of
families and individual people living together.
TRIBAL GILRS

 Face structural discrimination and social

exclusion within the Indian society.
 Live in isolated hilly regions and remote
forest areas.
 In India the scheduled tribes population is
around 84.3millions and is considered to be
socially and economically disadvantaged.
 Thodas; Irulas; Kurumbars are some tribal
group in tamil nadu.
PROBLEMS OF TRIBAL GIRLS
 Tribal girls are unable to acquire reading skills because they
do not speak nor understand the language used in schools.
 Implementation of forest right act deprives tribal girls from
minor forest produce hence jeoparadizes their livelihood.
 They suffer from double diseases that is suffering from
communicable and non-communicable diseases like
hypertension and diabetes.
 Malnutrition for lactating and pregnant women.
 Literacy rate is low among them.
 Lack of proper livelihood and employment.
 They are mainly landless with little control
and rights over resources such as land; forest
and water .
 They were agricultural labourers ; casual
labourers; plantation labourers; industrial
labourers; etc.
 Also engage in collecting herbs; perfume
materials ;fruits and honey.
Save Deprived Girls