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Abstract
The right of the children to free and compulsory education act ensures the educational rights of the children of the country having the age of six to fourteen years. The act is equally applicable to all the children in the country. The act specifies the educational rights of the children in the form of quality education, pupil-teacher ratio, protective environment, quality food, equal access, neighborhoodschools for educational expansion, concerns over corporal punishment, physical abuse etc. The aim of the present study is to be to analyze the role of tribal ashram schools in accessing the educational rights of the tribal children. The aim of the present study is also to reflect on rights of the children in context to quality education, quality teachers, protective environment, physical and mental harassment in school, infrastructural facilities, facilities of health and care. This study is based on secondary data. The previous studies, reports of government and different non-governmental organizations, research papers, related books, are referred. Annual reports of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs are referred. The data revealed that maximum of the tribal ashram schools are poor with respect to quality education, protective environment, physical and mental harassment in school, infrastructural facilities, facilities of health and care. Data is to be collected in the form of educational rights of the children in tribal ashram schools and recommendations, suggestions are presented at the end.