International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Research

Authors
Ambarish Kumar Rai, Bal Govind Chauhan, Rashmi

Abstract
In India, the MDGs drove progress and considerable changes in several important areas like income and poverty, education, inequality, health and mortality. EAG states which are one of the highest indigenous population concentric regions in India were destitute in socioeconomic, demographic and health indicators and many were, even so, less than the national average. So it was essential to address the socioeconomic and health inequity existing in the region and to measure the improvements, how far we needed to reach the MDGs with specific attention on the disadvantaged population. The objective of the study was to access the changes in development indices with changing the health status of mother and child of the tribal population and its significant contributing covariates. DLHS-2 & 3 data have been used to fulfil the objective. Bivariate & multivariate have used for analysis. Fairlie decomposition technique has employed to decompose the gap between social groups in the use of maternal healthcare. The results show that the poverty ratio among the STs was exorbitantly high across the region. The status of the region shows it either extremely or severely food insecure, and hence it causes for poor health status for the EAG states in general and the tribal community in particular. The health index has the lowest weight (0.468) whereas it was highest for the education (0.723), and the income index (0.545). In India, the pace development to reach the MDGs is much slower and need to impetus it with proper velocity for universal accessibility of health and developmental services with particular focus on the disadvantageous population to eradicate the poverty and to reduce their socioeconomic and health inequality.