Contents: 1. Marketing challenges for SHGs by tribal women in Koraput/Pravamayee Acharya and Manas Ranjan Pattnaik. 2. Participative approach for sustainable development of tribes in India after independence/Trilok Nath Shukla and Chandra Sekhar Pattnaik. 3. Convergence of tribal rights into livelihood/Kabita Kumari Sahu.4. Ministry of tribal affairs: an initiative of Government of India for Tribal Welfare/Mohammad Afsar Alam and Sukanta Sarkar. 5. The scheduled tribes and other tribes and other traditional forest dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006: Act for empowering forest tribals/Saidur Rahman and Sukanta Sarkar. 6. Inner permit line: a traditional method for controlling migration in tribal areas in North-East India/Rohini Prasad and Sukanta Sarkar. 7. Joint forest management: a strategy for preventing displacement of tribals from forest/Rakesh Joshi and Sukanta Sarkar. 8. Racial discrimination against North-East tribal students in North India: a reality/Pradeep Kumar Pandey. 9. The educational status of tribal people with special reference to Kandhamal and Mayurbhanj districts of Odisha/Poojashree Bhuyan, Suresh Kumar Sahoo and Deepak Pattanayak.10. Poor health infrastructure and tribals in Orissa: a study/Sudhansu K. Das.