CONSTITUTION HUMAN RIGHTS AND STATUS OF SCHEDULED TRIBES IN ANDHRA PRADESH

The main objective of the paper is to analyse the rights of Scheduled tribes in India and Andhra Pradesh and to analyse the socio-economic and demographic status of Schedule Tribe Population in the study area. The paper divided in to two sections, Section -1 analyse the constitutional safe guards of the Scheduled Tribes in India and Andhra Pradesh. Section –II shows the Socio-Economic Status of the sample respondents in the study area. The paper based on the secondary data and primary data. The study is concerned with Andhra Pradesh which is the major states having largest number of ST population, among states in India. Multi stage random sampling method is used to select the study area. In the first stage Vishakapatnam district from Andhra region, Anathapur district from Rayalaseema region and Kammam district from Telegana region is selected for the study. In the second stage each district one mandals are selected on the above criteria, Paderu from Visakhaptnam, Anathapur from Ananthapur district and singareni from Khmmam districts are selected. In the third stage each mandal two villages are selected which are valasamamidi and vanthapalli from paderumandal, Suryathanda and takulagudam from Singarenimandal and Ananthapur and Belugumpathanda from Ananthapurmandal. In the final stage each village 30 sample households are selected, altogether 180 sample households are selected. A structured questionnaire is used to collect the primary data from the sample households, which is related to demographic, socio, economic and income and consumption pattern of the households in the study area.