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The paper analysed school progression, enrolment, disparity, and dropout patterns and trends of tribal school going children of Jammu and Kashmir over time. The study applies the time series approach and uses U-DISE data of Ministry of Education, Government of India. The data regarding the above-mentioned indicators published from the year 2012-13 to 2018-19 were analysed. To analyse and visualise the data, descriptive statistics and graphical representation were employed. The study found an increasing trend in school growth over these years. The study found a declining trend in enrolment patterns of tribal children in school education at primary and upper primary stage while as improvement in enrolment trends at secondary and senior secondary stages. Tribal GER rate at initial stages (primary & upper primary) showed increasing trends, while as in terminal stages (secondary & senior secondary) showed a sharp decline. Although, tribal GPI has increased over a period of time but are yet to be achieved, which shows wider gender disparity. The trend in dropout rates of tribal children at primary stages have steeply increased and with each passing stage, it becomes more severe. Moreover, the stage, gender, and district-wise variations and gaps in these parameters have been found among tribal as well as non-tribal children. The results of the study can be helpful in enhancing enrolment, reducing disparity, and dropout rates among tribal communities of Jammu and Kashmir. The study will be helpful to policy makers, educators, tribal cum social welfare organisations, researchers, and NGO's to explore the different forces (intrinsic and extrinsic) that haunt the participation, transition, and survival of tribal children in school education.

In the present study 17 local genotypes were evaluated in three diverse locations during 2008-09 with observations recorded on maturity, morphological and yield parameters. Analysis of variance revealed that the genotypes exhibited highly significant genetic variability for all the traits viz., day to 50 per cent flowering, days to maturity, number of branches plant-1, number of pods plant-1, pod length, number of seed pod-1, 100-seed weight, seed yield plant-1 and protein content. The mean squares due to environments were also significant for all the traits indicating the environments selected were random and were different in agro-climatic conditions. Interaction of genotypes with the environment (G x E) were observed to be significant for all the traits except number of branches plant-1 and protein content. Based on the stability parameter of Eberhart and Russel model, SAUAR 28 was considered as stable and average responsive to the environments for yield and most of the component traits.