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<!-- Why to opt their language? India is home to 84 million tribal people living marginalized from the mainstream society. There is a visible gab between the privileged and socially deprived minorities. This particular gap can be diminished only through education, irrespective of cultural disparity constitution of India guarantee right to education to all of its citizen equally. Medium of instruction has a role to play in Indian contest of educating its population that speaks approximately 2000 languages. Shortage in school enrolment of tribal students have a connection with medium of instruction in school. Even though constitution in 1956 recognised the need for primary education in mother tongue for linguistic minorities. Today education is still imparted in 15 official languages and English. Studies have proved the flexibility of learning transaction using home language, which is complex considering the case a country like India with multiple cultural disparity. Tribal students are dropping out of school mainly due to difficulty in understating the language of mainland, that have contradictory effect on them, after all education is not only for economic upliftment but for inner strength of the tribal communities which helps to improve their social wellbeing. Language disparity also will further increase social stratification marginalising the marginalised into much deeper conflict. Tribal students exhibit less confidence to mingle with peer group, since they feel a sense of insecurity fitting into  heterogeneous classroom in which they are discriminated on the basis of unique cultural identity. They showcase less interest in learning, communication and even attending class regularly. Slowly they dropout school and continue doing jobs in their village. Many are not aware of the government policies and scheme introduced to them due to illiteracy, that will directly affect tribal social development. Education system is much further flexible due to inclusiveness. Further gap in education of marginalised communities, especially tribal students could be filled using practical solutions such asTraining the teachers to teach in tribal languages, which will be more effective if the teacher belongs to same community. This can create a sense of belongingness in students in a classroom atmosphere, that is not there in a normal classroom. Kerala is one state that had successfully implemented this practice and have retained students back to school. Samagra shiksha kerala has developed a programme which enables tribal students to learn lessons in their own language. They have initiated this after finding out that the Muthuvan tribal community students in lower primary at edamalakkudy in Idukki district are finding it difficult to follow classes in Malayalam. Malayalam letters will be taught parallel, mostly using reading class. Usually what we witness is that educational authorities neglecting cultural barrier, forcing students to mix up with mainstream mode of teaching learning, ultimately creating confusion in them. EDIT BELOW THIS LINE -->