Educating Tribals in India: A Study of Ashram Schools

Dr. B.S. Nagi (b. 1940) is working as Senior Research Fellow-cum-Senior System Manager, Council for Social Development, New Delhi. He holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur (Rajasthan). He was awarded Ph.D. degree by the same university in 1989. He is author of several research papers published in reputed national journals. He has completed two national level projects: (1) Micro Level Planning for Universal Immunization Programme in India, and (2) Review of Ongoing Oral Rehydratioin Therapy Programme in Six States of India. Te former was funded by UNICEF and the latter by WHO. Both these projects were sponsored by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Dr. Nagi has been lecturing at the Universities of Delhi and Nagpur Indian Institute of Technology, etc. on Research Methodology and Application of Statistical Tools in Social Sciences. He is also a consultant to several national level Projects.