Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups and Affirmative Action Policies of the State

India is a home to the number of tribal communities and Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) are one among them. Post-colonial state has initiated number of development programmes as part of the affirmative action for the benefit and upliftment of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) in India. Further, Government has set up a committee and asked the committee to study about their social, economic and political conditions. Further, there are numerous studies on the living conditions of the PVTGs and in order to have a holistic understanding of their livelihoods, an empirical study was conducted among the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) of Central India. The study largely depends on primary data gathered from an ethnographic fieldwork. The secondary data is collected from the published sources of books, journals, documents of the state and central governments and unpublished sources. The study also discusses the development initiatives of the postcolonial state in order to ameliorate the conditions of the marginal communities as part of their affirmative action policies. In the paper, an attempt is also made to look at the existing programs in the study area. Further, how far these programmes are helping to ameliorate the conditions of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) in the study area and lastly to know how far these programmes are sustainable in the life of PVTGs.