Position of tribal women in basalt quarrying industry as an informal sector: an experience of rampurhat-i c.d. block, birbhum district, West bengal

Women are economically excluded member of family in traditional society of developing countries, but they are engaged in house hold works like cooking, children rearing, manage the all parts of family throughout the day. Because, socially constructed rules are usually unequal in terms of power, decision- making, freedom, ownership of resources, and so on. This is the scenario of non-tribal and rural women in traditional society of main-stream civilization. Women of tribal community are exception to this discipline in terms of family income and other works of family. Tribal women as a hard worker collect the fuel and other resources like fruits, leaf and different types of grass from forest; consequently, they work in agricultural field. Refusing the forest and to some extent the agricultural field by introduction of basalt quarrying in 1960s, most of the tribal women of the area of Rampurhat-1C.D block of Birbhum district are forcefully engage in crasher. Traditional occupations of the tribal women were eco-friendly as well as biogenic resource process. Upcoming economy i.e. basalt quarrying sector create the problems of the position of tribal women in terms of socio-cultural spectrum. The paper made an attempt gives the realistic view about an informal economy as well as position of tribal women in quarrying sector.