Author:

Manik Paul
Research Scholar
Department of Economics
Raiganj University
Uttar Dinajpur,West Bengal, India
Email: manikpaul425@gmail.com

Dr. Debasish Biswas
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Raiganj University
Uttar Dinajpur,West Bengal

Email: deba2000@gmail.com

Abstract::This paper is a part of research work on scheduled tribes by Manik Paul under the
supervision of Dr. Debasish Biswas to investigate into the demographic profile of the scheduled tribes (ST) population in the tea gardens (T.G.) of Alipurdar district in West Bengal. The demographic profile of scheduled tribes has been described in the tea garden wise and Block wise in Alipurduar district. It is very difficult to identify all the scheduled tribes community in the tea gardens in a specified manner. However, the investigator try to give a brief demographic profile of scheduled tribes community in the tea gardens from various district reports and census reports of India. According to 2011 census, there are 29.46% population are reside in the tea gardens area in Alipurduar district where 31.30% are male and 28.47% are female population. The study shows that out of all scheduled tribes population in Alipurduar district there are 54.87% scheduled tribes population reside in the
tea gardens of the district where 54.01% are male and 55.04% are female population. It also shows that there are 28.81% ST population reside in all blocks of Alipurduar district. From all the tea gardens population 53.66% population are scheduled tribe.

Key Words:Alipurduar district, Demographic Profile, Scheduled Tribes,Tea Gardens.